PlanetScale and Vitess
Horizontally shard MySQL without the hassle
Get an eloquent sharding solution with PlanetScale. Minimal application changes required. Powered by Vitess.

Minimal application changes
Avoid the complexity of application level sharding
- Get the power of Vitess and horizontally sharded MySQL
- Remove the complexity and costs associated with app-level sharding
- Unlimited runway for growth without re-architecting your application

Reduce the load on any single database
Distribute your workload across several databases.
Break through your vertical scaling roof
Overcome vertical scaling and replica constraints.
Sharding scheme
Designed-for-you sharding scheme
Get a sharding design by the team that maintains Vitess and has scaled systems to billions of MAU.

Smart resource management
Never over-provision again
Leaps in hardware lead to spikey infrastructure costs. Scale linearly with PlanetScale and provision to your needs.
Horizontally shard with
Vitess under the hood
Built on the technology developed to scale YouTube.com to billions of users. PlanetScale unlocks the power of Vitess, without configuring it yourself.
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`id` bigint unsigned
`email` varchar(255)
`admin` tinyint(1) DEFAULT
+ `role` varchar(255),
`created_at` datetime
`updated_at` datetime