PlanetScale is a cloud database platform designed for speed, scalability, and reliability, supporting both Vitess (for MySQL) and Postgres. Key features include:
- Horizontal Sharding: Vitess enables explicit sharding to distribute data across thousands of nodes via a single connection, ideal for scaling to petabytes.
- High Performance: Powered by NVMe drives for unlimited IOPS and low latency, outperforming competitors like Amazon Aurora and GCP Cloud SQL.
- Deployment Flexibility: Options include PlanetScale Managed for bring-your-own-cloud, AWS/GCP Marketplace integration, and multi-region setups.
- Uptime and Security: Offers 99.999% SLA for multi-region deployments, SOC 2, HIPAA, and PCI DSS compliance, with online schema changes and rollbacks.
- Use Cases: Suited for Tier 0 databases, large-scale applications (e.g., Slack, GitHub), and workloads requiring high queries per second and data safety.
