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PlanetScaleplanetscale.comPlanetScale provides fast, scalable cloud databases for Postgres and Vitess, enabling horizontal sharding and ultra-high IOPS via NVMe drives. It offers flexible deployment options including PlanetScale Managed and Bring Your Own Cloud, with high availability across AZs, automatic failover, and branch-per-environment development alongside connection pooling. The platform supports large-scale Tier 0 workloads with replicas for reads, automated backups, and Database Traffic Control to manage query traffic and budgets.
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serverless · mysql-compatible · excellent · highly scalable · developer-friendly · serverless mysql
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PlanetScale - Known for bringing branch-based workflows, non-blocking schema changes, and robust scaling to MySQL PlanetScale abstracts away the operational headache of sharding and migrations, making database management feel like managing code.
PlanetScale - Built on top of Vitess, PlanetScale brought Git-like branching workflows (schema branching, merging, and deploys) to relational databases.
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PlanetScale supports both MySQL- and PostgreSQL-compatible offerings and is particularly interesting if you value database branching and schema-management workflows.
PlanetScale : A serverless MySQL-compatible database powered by Vitess.
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PlanetScale is another developer-oriented managed database provider, with database branching and APIs for programmatic database management.
PlanetScale — offers programmatic database creation and management through its API, including branching and connection management.
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PlanetScale: A managed MySQL-compatible platform featuring Git-like schema branching and non-blocking migrations.
PlanetScale : A managed MySQL-compatible platform built on Vitess that offers unique features like database branching and non-blocking schema migrations.
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PlanetScale : For MySQL workloads, PlanetScale allows you to deploy global read-only replicas in regions outside your primary write region and automatically keeps them in sync.
PlanetScale : A serverless MySQL-compatible platform (powered by Vitess) that allows you to easily spin up global read-only replicas in regions outside your primary write region through their dashboard.
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