PlanetScale documentation
PlanetScale is a relational database platform that brings you scale, performance, and reliability — without sacrificing developer experience. We offer both Vitess and PostgreSQL clusters, powered by locally-attached NVMe drives that deliver unlimited IOPS and ultra-low latency.
All clusters are deployed with one primary and a minimum of 2 replicas across 3 availability zones for high availability. Automated failovers, no downtime managed version upgrades, and a team of database experts holding the pager means you can spend your time shipping instead of worrying about your database.
For large-scale applications that are hitting the limits of vertical scale, PlanetScale's Vitess is a great option. You get the power of horizontal sharding, built-in connection pooling, and non-blocking schema changes so you'll never have to worry about outgrowing your database solution.
PlanetScale quickstart guide
Deploy a database and learn the basics of using PlanetScale with an example.
Sharding with PlanetScale
Distribute your data across several instances with horizontal sharding.