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Dev tools · May 24, 2022

PlanetScale Portals

Replicate your production database across the globe

PlanetScale Portals launched on May 24, 2022 with 93 votes, #325 of 2,942 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 4 years on.

What it does

Create read-only database regions to support globally distributed applications and better serve your users worldwide.

Put your data where your users and applications are.

If you deploy your applications in regions around the globe and need to keep database read latency low, you will want to physically have a database nearby. With PlanetScale Portals, you can now create read-only regions to support your globally distributed applications and better serve your users worldwide. Portals allow you to read data from regions closest to where you globally deploy your applications. Whether your application is deployed near Northern Virginia, Frankfurt, São Paulo, or any of our other PlanetScale regions , Portals can now provide lower read latency for your applications! Today, each database in PlanetScale reads and writes from a single region. But with Portals, you can…from planetscale.com

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