PlanetScale: Enterprise-Grade Cloud Database Platform
PlanetScale is a cloud database platform that offers high-performance hosting for both Vitess and Postgres databases. Originally developed at YouTube, their Vitess technology enables MySQL databases to scale horizontally across thousands of nodes while maintaining a single connection point.
Key Features:
- Blazing fast performance with NVMe drives and unlimited IOPS
- Online schema changes with zero downtime
- Revertable schema changes with zero data loss
- Horizontal sharding capabilities for massive scale
- Automated read-only replica management
- Online MySQL and Vitess version updates
- Flexible deployment options including bring-your-own-cloud
- SOC 1 Type 2, SOC 2 Type 2, and HIPAA compliance
Use Cases:
- Enterprise-scale database deployments
- High-performance applications requiring millions of queries per second
- Systems handling hundreds of terabytes of data
- Multi-region database deployments
- Mission-critical applications requiring zero-downtime operations
Trusted by major tech companies including Slack, HubSpot, GitHub, Etsy, and Bloomberg for their most demanding database workloads.
