Documentation

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:

  1. Account setup
  2. Creating your first database
  3. Branching and deployments
  4. Connecting to your database

Get started with PlanetScale

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.

Import a database

Use our import tool to import a database to PlanetScale with no downtime.

Connection strings

PlanetScale provides secure connection strings for your database branches.

Tutorials

Ruby on Rails

Learn how to connect your Rails app to a PlanetScale database.

Vercel

Deploy a Next.js app with a PlanetScale database to Vercel.

Prisma

Learn how to use PlanetScale's automatic migrations with Prisma.