PlanetScale documentation
Learn how to use PlanetScale to power your application.
New to PlanetScale?
Follow this step-by-step guide to quickly get up and running with PlanetScale. You’ll learn the following:
- Account setup
- Creating your first database
- Branching and deployments
- Connecting to your database
What is PlanetScale?
Learn about how PlanetScale can help you scale and speed up development.
PlanetScale quickstart guide
Deploy a database and learn the basics of using PlanetScale with an example.
PlanetScale architecture
Primaries, replicas, load balancers, and more.
Sharding with PlanetScale
Distribute your data across several instances with horizontal sharding.
Branching
Online schema changes with branching and deploy requests.
Import a database
Use our import tool to import a database to PlanetScale with no downtime.
PlanetScale plans
PlanetScale plans
What's the difference between Scaler Pro and Enterprise?
Deployment options
PlanetScale offers multi-tenant and single-tenant deployment options.
Bring your own cloud
Learn about our Enterprise offering — PlanetScale Managed.