PlanetScale

PlanetScale is a cloud database platform that provides high-performance, scalable database solutions based on Vitess and Postgres. It offers blazing-fast NVMe drives that unlock unlimited IOPS, bringing data center performance to the cloud. PlanetScale supports both Vitess, which allows MySQL databases to scale horizontally through explicit sharding, and Postgres, a fully managed PostgreSQL cluster built for performance and reliability.

Key features include high availability with automatic failover across multiple availability zones, connection pooling with PgBouncer to minimize impact during failovers, and branch-per-environment capabilities where each branch runs on its own dedicated cluster. PlanetScale Metal provides NVMe-backed performance with unlimited IOPS, benchmarked as the fastest Postgres in the cloud.

PlanetScale is designed for Tier 0 databases and powers the databases of some of the web's largest properties, including Slack, HubSpot, Blizzard, Etsy, GitHub, Block, Bloomberg, and Yelp. It offers deployment options to cover various security and compliance requirements, including bring your own cloud with PlanetScale Managed.

The platform targets businesses requiring highly scalable and reliable database solutions, from development and low-traffic production workloads to demanding applications needing millions of queries per second on hundreds of terabytes of data. PlanetScale aims to provide first-class tooling without sacrificing developer experience, making it suitable for both small startups and large enterprises.

PlanetScale was founded in 2018 by the co-creators and maintainers of the Vitess open source project. The company values high performance, accountability, and integrity, and its team has extensive experience scaling large systems at companies like Adobe, Amazon, and Google.