The world’s fastest and most reliable OLTP database
Backed by Vitess, our cloud platform makes achieving a shared-nothing architecture with explicit sharding simpler than ever. PlanetScale’s platform delivers horizontal scale, performance, and simplified operations no matter the size your business.
PlanetScale Metal’s blazing fast NVMe drives unlock unlimited IOPS, bringing data center performance to the cloud. We offer a range of deployment options to cover all of your security and compliance requirements — including bring your own cloud with PlanetScale Managed.
Our technology powers Tier 0 databases at:
When you buy PlanetScale, you’re getting the technology and database expertise that ran and scaled YouTube, the internet’s #2 site, and the team that scaled GitHub to over 100M users globally.
– Todd Berman @Attentive
Performance
PlanetScale Metal allows you to run your database on the fastest servers available in the cloud. Our blazing fast NVMe drives unlock unlimited IOPS and drastically lower latencies compared to other cloud database providers like Amazon Aurora and GCP Cloud SQL.
We are very happy with our decision to migrate to PlanetScale Metal which enabled us to achieve the rare outcome of improvements in performance, cost, and reliability – a win for our customers and our business.
– Aaron Young @ Cash App
Vitess
Vitess allows MySQL databases to scale horizontally through explicit sharding — enabling a shared nothing architecture distributing data across thousands of nodes, all routed through a single database connection.
Vitess was developed at YouTube by the founders of PlanetScale to scale their main MySQL database to petabytes of data on 70,000 nodes across 20 data centers. Now maintained and managed by PlanetScale, Vitess powers the databases of some of the web’s largest properties: Slack, HubSpot, Blizzard, Etsy, GitHub, Block, Bloomberg, Yelp, and more.
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Our migration to Vitess is more than just a technological upgrade; it’s a strategic move to future-proof our database architecture for the next decade and beyond.
– Ryan Sherlock @Intercom
Uptime
Ensuring your database is always running and your data is always safe is our number one priority. Nothing comes before uptime and reliability. Our SLA commitment is 99.999% for multi-region deployments and 99.99% for single-region deployments.
PlanetScale’s platform far exceeds the reliability of database services like Amazon Aurora/RDS and Google Cloud SQL with superior architecture and by making all database operations online.
- Deploy schema changes fully online
- Revertable schema changes (with zero data loss)
- Directing traffic to new read-only replicas
- Online MySQL and Vitess version updates
- Online cluster resizing and resharding
You can check out our track record on our status page.
Cost
At PlanetScale we believe cost is a unit of scale. Our product is less expensive than RDS MySQL and Aurora for around 85% of the workloads that customers have migrated to Metal. Getting a custom quote is easy: reach out to us. No long sales process or annoying pitches — you can probably tell from our website that the tech speaks for itself.
- No matter the size of your workload, PlanetScale Metal has the best price to performance ratio of any database service.
- Bring your own cloud and commitment discounts with PlanetScale Managed
- Purchase through the AWS Marketplace or the GCP Marketplace
- Customers running Metal on PlanetScale Managed can realize additional savings through Reserved Instances or Savings Plans — discounts otherwise not available on traditional EBS volumes.
Security
PlanetScale is trusted by some of the world’s largest brands. Our core infrastructure was built to comply with high standards of security, compliance, and privacy.
- SOC 2 Type 2+ HIPAA compliance
- PCI DSS 4.0 compliance as a Level 1 Service Provider
- HIPAA Business Associate Agreements available on all plans
Learn more about our security and compliance practices in the security documentation.
We have very strict regulatory requirements that can feel painful to the average engineer, however PlanetScale was a strong partner in grinding through our asks, leaving us in a place where everyone was happy.
– Aaron Young @Cash App
Visit our Trust Center to request the latest copy of our SOC 2 Type 2 report, PCI DSS Attestation of Compliance, and more.
Features
PlanetScale is an opinionated database platform built by the infrastructure teams behind Facebook, GitHub, Twitter, Slack, YouTube, and more. All of our features combine to provide an end-to-end database management platform that prevents human error and provides full insight into query performance with actionable recommendations to make your database faster.
- Branching and deploy requests for zero downtime schema changes that your team can review.
- Store your vector data alongside your application’s relational MySQL data with PlanetScale vector support.
- Roll back bad schema changes with no downtime and no data loss.
- Full database observability with Insights to give you a detailed overview of cluster health.
- Automate the horizontal scaling of your database with our explicit sharding workflows.
- Utilize our Global Edge Network to automatically route query traffic to local nodes.
- Integrations with Fivetran, Airbyte, Hightouch, Datadog, Vantage, Debezium, and more.
- All of this is backed by our best-in-class support.
Databases are hard. We would rather PlanetScale manage them. We wanted the support PlanetScale offers because they are the experts in the field. We’ve seen this come to fruition in our relationship.
– Chris Karper @ MyFitnessPal