PlanetScale

• ✓Horizontal scaling with Vitess
• ✓NVMe storage with unlimited IOPS
• ✓High availability clusters
• ✓Online schema changes
• ✓Branch-per-environment workflow
• ✓Automated failover
• ✓Database Traffic Control

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• ＋Horizontal scaling with Vitess
• ＋NVMe storage with unlimited IOPS
• ＋High availability clusters
• ＋Online schema changes
• ＋Branch-per-environment workflow
• ＋Automated failover
• ＋Database Traffic Control

• −Enterprise features require custom pricing
• −Minimum 3 instances required for production branches

Pricing model: Unknownⓘ. No plan details yet.

PlanetScale provides high-performance managed databases with Postgres and Vitess, featuring horizontal scaling, NVMe storage, and enterprise-grade reliability.

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1. 1

   Sign up for an account

   Visit the PlanetScale website and create a new account to access the database platform.

2. 2

   Create your first database

   From your dashboard, initiate the creation of a new database, choosing between Postgres or Vitess (MySQL) based on your needs.

3. 3

   Configure your database cluster

   Set up your database with desired options like high availability, storage type, and region for deployment.

4. 4

   Connect your application

   Obtain the connection string from PlanetScale and use it to connect your web application or service to the new database.

5. 5

   Manage schema changes

   Use the online schema change and branch-per-environment features to safely deploy and test database migrations.

6. 6

   Monitor and scale

   Utilize the platform's tools to monitor performance and scale your database horizontally as your application traffic grows.

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