PlanetScale
FundedFastest and most scalable cloud databases with Vitess and Postgres
About PlanetScale
PlanetScale provides highly scalable and performant cloud database solutions built on Vitess and PostgreSQL, designed for enterprises requiring robust data infrastructure. Their platform enables horizontal scaling through sharding, delivering exceptional speed and reliability suitable for demanding workloads involving millions of queries per second and hundreds of terabytes of data. PlanetScale’s Vitess technology, originally developed at YouTube, supports a shared-nothing architecture that distributes data across thousands of nodes, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance.
The platform offers a fully managed PostgreSQL service with high availability clusters, automated failover, and advanced features like Database Traffic Control™ to manage query resource budgets. PlanetScale targets large enterprises and web-scale companies needing cloud-native database solutions with strong compliance and security options, including bring-your-own-cloud deployments. Their service supports seamless scaling, schema branching, and automated backups, helping CIOs future-proof their database architecture while maintaining developer productivity and operational efficiency.
Key Capabilities
- ✓Horizontal scaling with Vitess sharding
- ✓Fully managed PostgreSQL clusters
- ✓High availability with automated failover
- ✓Database Traffic Control™ for query resource management
- ✓Branch-per-environment schema management
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