PlanetScale

The world’s fastest and most scalable cloud databases

4.7•18 reviews•

136 followers

The world’s fastest and most scalable cloud databases

4.7•18 reviews•

136 followers

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PlanetScale brings you the fastest databases available in the cloud. Both our Postgres and Vitess databases deliver exceptional speed and reliability, with Vitess adding ultra scalability through horizontal sharding. 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.

PlanetScale Reviews

The community submitted 18 reviews to tell us what they like about PlanetScale, what PlanetScale can do better, and more.

4.7

Based on 18 reviews

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Reviews praise PlanetScale’s reliability, speed, and developer workflow, with strong endorsements from makers. The makers of

Graphy

cite scaling to hundreds of thousands of daily requests. The makers of

Superwall

report going from zero to billions of devices with minimal overhead. The makers of

Campsite

highlight easy management and smooth deploy requests. Users love branching and zero-downtime changes but note the removed free tier, surprise costs, occasional downtime, CLI scripting needs for CI, and missing foreign keys and richer GUI tools.

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scalability (5)

developer-friendly (4)

database branching (2)

excellent customer support (2)

fast performance (2)

reliable (2)

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PageAI

•37 reviews

I've been a PlanetScale user for many months now and overall I can say it's a good, performant database. During this time there was an incident that resulted in downtime (I think it was around an hour or so?). Otherwise it's been running smooth otherwise. I like some of the ideas they are pushing too. Since I'm a solo developer I can't make use of the team features but I do use branching for myself and it's a nice safety net. Keep in mind there is no foreign key support although they are working on it. I'm looking forward to that. Also, there is no GUI or DBMS - just a SQL console. Not sure if they plan to add that but I felt it's missing every now and then.

What's great

fast performance (2)database branching (2)

What needs improvement

no foreign key support (1)no GUI or DBMS (1)downtime incidents (1)

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1 view3yr ago

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PlanetScale

to build Heima

•8 reviews

PlanetScale has completely transformed how we manage our database. Its scalable, serverless architecture makes it easy to handle large volumes of data without the hassle of manual scaling or infrastructure management. We can deploy changes seamlessly, and its compatibility with MySQL makes it familiar yet incredibly powerful. PlanetScale’s branching and data versioning features make managing database schema changes painless and safe. With its high availability and fast performance, we can focus on building features instead of worrying about database management.

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1 view11mo ago

•6 reviews

I don't love the recent changes of PlanetScale to remove their free tier. That said, their database branching workflow is absolutely the best I've used as a dev. I can easily spin up a branch for working on a new feature and make a merge request with schema changes just like I would git. The only gotcha here is that to make it work well in CI, you have to write a few scripts with their cli to avoid doing things manually.

What's great

database branching (2)

What needs improvement

removed free tier (1)

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1 view2yr ago

used

PlanetScale

to build Cushion

•3 reviews

Absolutely GOATED database provider. Massively improved our performance just by migrating last year.

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1 view6d ago

used

PlanetScale

to build Stackfix

•4 reviews

PlanetScale is the most developer-friendly database we’ve used. Its serverless architecture means you get scalability without the headaches. PlanetScale’s customer support has also helped us out a few times; they’ve been helpful and prompt.

What's great

scalability (5)excellent customer support (2)developer-friendly (4)serverless architecture (1)

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1yr ago

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PlanetScale

to build Balance

•6 reviews

Balance uses PlanetScale to securely store user's financial data. Battle tested at companies like YouTube, Gusto, and Slack, I'm confident that our users' most sensitive information is in the best possible hands.

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10mo ago

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PlanetScale

to build Campsite

•4 reviews

As a NextJS and Rails app, Planetscale is the backbone of Campsite. Our database is incredibly fast, secure, and easy to manage. Deploy Requests are GOATed.

What's great

fast performance (2)developer-friendly (4)secure (1)

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1yr ago

used

PlanetScale

to build RunLLM

•19 reviews

A joy to work with. Branching, schema changes, and zero-downtime deploys make PlanetScale perfect for our evolving data models. Developer-friendly + production-safe = rare combo.

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1 view8mo ago

•1 review

Ridiculous to charge close to 100 USD for my two clusters of 1.5 mb. The excessive pricing was not clear to me when I registered.

What needs improvement

excessive pricing (1)

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12mo ago

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PlanetScale

to build Superwall

•2 reviews

We run on PlanetScale and they're simply the best database provider out there. 0 to billions of devices with a single engineer and only a few bumps along the way!

What's great

scalability (5)reliable (2)

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12mo ago

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