PlanetScale
planetscale.comThe world's fastest and most scalable cloud databases
Ops & Infradatabasemysqlvitesspostgrescloud-hostingscalabilitysharding
About
PlanetScale provides managed cloud database hosting for Vitess and Postgres, designed for extreme scale and performance. Built by the founders of Vitess — originally developed at YouTube — it supports horizontal sharding across thousands of nodes. It serves major companies like Slack, GitHub, HubSpot, and Etsy.
Problem
Scaling relational databases like MySQL to handle massive data volumes and traffic without operational complexity
For
engineering teams and companies needing highly scalable managed databases
How it works
PlanetScale hosts and manages Vitess clusters (and Postgres), enabling horizontal sharding and distributed MySQL through a single connection endpoint via VTGate
Business model
freemium
Status
launched
Company
PlanetScale