PlanetScale Beta

In plain words

PlanetScale is a database service built on the Vitess engine used by major companies like GitHub and Slack. It offers developers live database branches for development, non-blocking schema changes for production deployments, and a command-line interface for database management. The platform is designed to support applications from initial development through scaling, providing database infrastructure that handles complex operations without downtime.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

The new database for developers. - Build with live database branches. - Push non-blocking schema changes. - Work in a fully powered CLI. Built on the Vitess engine that powers companies like GitHub, Slack, and YouTube.

PlanetScale offers the world’s fastest and most scalable cloud hosting for Vitess, Neki, and Postgres.

PlanetScale brings you the fastest databases available in the cloud, built for exceptional speed and reliability. For workloads that outgrow a single node, Vitess and Neki, our sharded MySQL and sharded Postgres products, add horizontal scaling, online schema changes, no-downtime upgrades, built-in connection pooling, and more. Our blazing fast NVMe drives unlock unlimited IOPS , bringing data center performance to the cloud. We offer a range of deployment options to cover all of your security and compliance requirements — including bring your own cloud with PlanetScale Managed . Vitess allows MySQL databases to scale horizontally through explicit sharding — enabling a shared nothing…from planetscale.com

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