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

• Horizontally Scaled MySQL (Vitess): Scaling relational MySQL applications to millions of queries per second without manual sharding.
• Non-Blocking Schema Migrations: Executing online DDL schema changes on live multi-terabyte tables with zero downtime and zero locking.
• Database Branching & Developer Workflows: Branching production databases for local development and merging schema changes via Deploy Requests.
• Serverless Web Applications: Querying MySQL from serverless environments over HTTP using the PlanetScale serverless driver.

Quick Start

Uses standard MySQL drivers.

# Connect via CLI
pscale shell my-database main