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PlanetScale

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A highly scalable, serverless MySQL database platform built on Vitess, designed for extreme scale and non-blocking schema changes.

What it is

PlanetScale brings Git-like workflows to databases. It allows developers to create database branches, test schema changes in isolation, and deploy them to production without locking tables or causing downtime. Built on the Vitess technology used by YouTube, it is designed to scale horizontally across multiple servers effortlessly.

When you would use it

You use PlanetScale when your application relies on MySQL, requires enormous horizontal scalability, and demands safe, zero-downtime schema migrations.

Common operations

  • Branching a database to safely test a risky migration before merging to production.
  • Scaling a relational database to handle massive, unpredictable traffic spikes.

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