PlanetScale

PlanetScale is a serverless database platform compatible with MySQL. It is built on Vitess, the technology used by YouTube/Slack to scale massively.

When to Use

• High Traffic MySQL: When you need "sharding" but don't want to build it yourself.
• Schema Management: excellent "Branching" workflow (Development -> Staging -> Production) without downtime (Online DDL).
• Connections: Handles 100,000s of concurrent connections (Vitess architecture).

Quick Start

Uses standard MySQL drivers.

# Connect via CLI
pscale shell my-database main