PlanetScale
The world's fastest and most scalable cloud databases for Vitess and Postgres, offering unlimited IOPS and horizontal sharding.
Overview
PlanetScale offers a cutting-edge cloud database platform designed for unparalleled speed and scalability. It supports both traditional Postgres and Vitess, a powerful open-source database clustering system for MySQL. The platform leverages blazing-fast NVMe drives to deliver unlimited IOPS, ensuring that database performance is never a bottleneck for applications. For MySQL users, PlanetScale's implementation of Vitess provides horizontal sharding, enabling databases to scale across thousands of nodes and petabytes of data. This shared-nothing architecture, originally developed at YouTube, allows for extreme scalability while maintaining a single database connection. PlanetScale also offers various deployment options, including a managed service and the ability to bring your own cloud, catering to diverse security and compliance needs. It's built to power Tier 0 databases, making it suitable for the most critical and demanding workloads.
Pricing
Scaler Pro
- Includes 3 nodes (1 primary, 2 replica)
- 1/8 vCPU, 1 GB memory per node
- 10 GB storage included
- High availability across 3 availability zones
- Branching
- Managed version upgrades
- Automated backups
- Horizontal sharding options
Enterprise
- Vitess expertise
- Migration assistance
- Slack-based support
- More deployment options (multi-tenant, single-tenant, or in your own AWS / GCP account)
- Business support included
- Sharding design consultation
- Custom pricing
- Additional regions
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Exceptional speed and reliability for both Postgres and Vitess
- Unmatched scalability for MySQL workloads via Vitess's horizontal sharding
- High performance with unlimited IOPS due to NVMe drives
- Proven track record powering large-scale applications (e.g., Slack, GitHub)
- Flexible deployment options, including managed and BYOC
- Simplified management of complex sharded architectures
Cons
- Vitess sharding can introduce complexity for developers unfamiliar with the concept
- Potential vendor lock-in for highly optimized Vitess deployments
- Pricing might be higher than traditional cloud database services for smaller projects
- Steeper learning curve for advanced features like sharding compared to standard relational databases
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Best For
- Scaling high-traffic web applications with MySQL
- Building Tier 0 databases requiring extreme reliability and performance
- Handling petabytes of data across distributed nodes
- Applications with millions of queries per second
- Companies needing robust security and compliance for their databases
- Migrating existing MySQL databases to a horizontally scalable solution
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