PlanetScale
The world's fastest and most scalable cloud databases
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.
PlanetScale hosts and manages Vitess clusters (and Postgres), enabling horizontal sharding and distributed MySQL through a single connection endpoint via VTGate
engineering teams and companies needing highly scalable managed databases
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- freemium
- Company
- PlanetScale
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