PlanetScale Vitess
MySQL-compatible serverless — Vitess under the hood
4.8(205 reviews)free
free tieropen sourceself hostableapi access
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
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- Core features included
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