Changelog
The latest PlanetScale features and product launches. Get the RSS feed.
Teams
You can now easily manage database administrator access to one or multiple databases with Teams. Head to your Organization Settings page, click "Teams", and start adding members and databases. →
Password roles
Today, we’re launching password roles for PlanetScale Databases. PlanetScale passwords can now be created with more granular control over which operations they can perform. →
Datadog integration
Today, we’re launching the Datadog integration. PlanetScale can push now metrics to Datadog to assist your team with understanding your database usage and performance. →
PlanetScale Insights
Today, we’re introducing the next iteration of our Query Statistics tool: PlanetScale Insights. →
PlanetScale Connect
We’ve introduced a new feature called PlanetScale Connect that makes it easier to safely extract, load, and transform your data. →
PlanetScale Portals
Today, we’re introducing PlanetScale Portals. With Portals, you can add read-only regions to your production database in any available region. →
New plan + pricing updates
Today, we’re introducing the Teams plan to better accomodate teams that require more resources and higher performance than the Scaler plan. →
Three more regions
We have added three more regions across the globe. Now you can deploy databases on AWS in Frankfurt (), Sydney (), and São Paulo (). →
Revert a schema change
We’ve introduced a new feature that allows you to revert a schema change with no data loss. →
Updates to our pricing
We’ve updated our Developer and Scaler plans to better accomodate user needs. →
Database sleeping
We’ve made an update that may affect databases on the free Developer plan. Inactive databases may be put into sleep mode after 30 days of inactivity. All data will be backed up and stored, but you will not be able to connect to the database. →
Database Imports
The new PlanetScale Database Import feature makes it easy and painless to migrate your data from an existing internet accessible MySQL database into a PlanetScale database. With just a connection to your database, you can try out PlanetScale in front of your existing database and then import your data into PlanetScale. When you’re ready, switch traffic to your PlanetScale database without any downtime. Note: this feature is in limited beta. →
PlanetScale Managed Cloud
We’ve launched PlanetScale Managed Cloud, our enterprise offering for customers who need to host their data. We offer a unique managed experience — we deploy PlanetScale in our customer’s AWS account and manage it directly using a sub-account. This provides the full managed experience to our customers, while meeting their strict compliance requirements. Read more about PlanetScale Managed Cloud in this blog post. →
Updates to our pricing
We’ve updated our Scaler plan to make it a better option for our users. As a part of these changes, we’ll be including 500 million rows read, 50 million rows written, and 25 GB of storage in the plan and charging a monthly fee of $29. For usage and storage above the included amounts, we’ll be charging $1.50 per 10 million row reads, $1.50 per 1 million row writes, and $1.25 per GB of storage. →
Database Administrator role
To make it easier to fine-tune access control in your PlanetScale organization, we’ve added a new role: . →
Branch promotion to production
We’ve made a few changes to how branches work in PlanetScale. Now whenever you create a database, your branch will be a development branch by default, allowing you to start making changes to the schema instantaneously, without needing to use deploy requests. When you're done hacking around and ready to make your database production-ready, you can promote your branch to production, which enables high-availability and direct DDL protection (sorry Little Bobby Tables). Additionally, you can promote multiple branches if you so desire, so if you want to have a database branch that’s also protected, we can do that for you! →
Set a default organization
We’ve made it easier to manage your PlanetScale organizations by allowing users to set a default organization. Once set, users will land in the default organization every time they sign in. →
Web console
We’ve added a web console to make working with your PlanetScale database even easier. You can now run through the database branch lifecycle using just the website, no need to switch between apps to connect to your database branch and run commands. →
Prisma Data Platform integration
PlanetScale and Prisma have partnered to allow developers to create PlanetScale databases in the new Prisma Data Platform. You can have a starter database schema and a live PlanetScale database ready to accept thousands of new database connections with a few clicks. →
Asia Pacific regions
We have added three new regions in Asia Pacific to PlanetScale. Now you can deploy databases in Mumbai, Tokyo, and Singapore. →
Query statistics
Starting today, all PlanetScale database branches now track statistics about each SQL query that has executed against it without any overhead. This allows users to identify queries that are running too frequently, returning too large of a result set, or require an index to return results more quickly. You can read about how we’re using this feature to optimize queries in our latest blog post. →
Automatically copy migration data
We’ve made it even easier to use a PlanetScale database with the framework of your choice. Now, you can automatically persist schema changes in your framework’s migration table. →
SOC 2 type II compliance
We are excited to announce that we have achieved SOC 2 type II compliance. We take security very seriously at PlanetScale, and this is just one of the many measures we are taking to ensure the continuous security and integrity of data stored on our platform. →
Connection Strings
You can now use the tools you're familiar with to connect to PlanetScale databases, whether that’s with Rails, Python, Prisma, Laravel, or any other MySQL client. Connection strings are built for serverless scale and enable you to connect to other serverless computing platforms like AWS Lambda or Vercel. →
New Regions and Branch Regions
We’ve added two new regions US West (Oregon) and EU West (Dublin, Ireland), and we’ll be adding more regions in the future. →