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PlanetScale
The world's fastest and most scalable cloud databases
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Mission brief
Cloud hosting platform for Vitess, Neki, and Postgres databases with horizontal sharding, online schema changes, and high-performance NVMe-backed infrastructure.
Questions from the ground
What database products does PlanetScale offer?
PlanetScale offers three main database products: Vitess (MySQL-compatible with horizontal sharding), Neki (next-generation Postgres sharding architecture), and PlanetScale Postgres (single node or high availability). All products are available on standard cloud hosting or high-performance PlanetScale Metal with NVMe storage.
How does PlanetScale Metal improve database performance?
PlanetScale Metal uses blazing fast NVMe drives that unlock unlimited IOPS and drastically lower latencies compared to other cloud database providers like Amazon Aurora and GCP Cloud SQL. It starts at $50 per month and is benchmarked as the fastest Postgres in the cloud.
What SLA uptime does PlanetScale guarantee?
PlanetScale's SLA commitment is 99.999% for multi-region deployments and 99.99% for single-region deployments. The platform prioritizes uptime and reliability by making all database operations online, including schema changes, version updates, and resharding.
How does PlanetScale pricing work?
PlanetScale uses resource-based, pay-as-you-go pricing. PlanetScale Postgres starts at $5/month for single node development workloads, while PlanetScale Metal starts at $50/month. Pricing factors include compute (instances and routers), topology (shards and replicas), storage, and usage (backups and network egress). Enterprise plans offer custom pricing.
Key features
- Horizontal sharding for massive scale across thousands of nodes
- Branching and schema/data isolation workflows for safe development
- Built-in connection pooling and resilient connection behavior
- High availability with automated failover across three availability zones
- Query Insights for detailed database observability and monitoring
- Multi-region support for globally distributed workloads
- Automated and custom backups
- Database Traffic Control to enforce query budgets and prevent runaway queries
Pricing
PlanetScale Postgres starts at $5/month for single node development workloads. PlanetScale Metal starts at $50/month for high-performance NVMe-backed databases. Enterprise plans available with custom pricing. Pricing is based on compute instances, topology (shards/replicas), storage, and usage.
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