PlanetScale Vitess
MySQL-compatible serverless — Vitess under the hood
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PlanetScale is built on Vitess, the database scaling technology developed at YouTube and used to serve billions of queries. Horizontal sharding, schema migrations via Pull Requests, and serverless scaling.
Pros
- Open-source Vitess powering PlanetScale
- YouTube-scale tested
- Horizontal sharding for MySQL
Cons
- Complex to self-host
- No foreign key support in Vitess
Best For
Database engineers wanting to understand or self-host the Vitess technology underlying PlanetScale
Pricing
Free Forever
- Core features included
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