PlanetScale is a MySQL-compatible, serverless database platform powered by Vitess. Get started in seconds and scale indefinitely. You can quickly learn the basics of creating and managing a database; or learn more about the concepts, like database branching, that make this platform unique.

PlanetScale is designed to be as beautiful and consistently easy to use as it is reliable. In other words, get ready for a whole new level of UX, worthy of the most important piece in your application stack.

Fauna provides serverless, multi-region, transactional database instances that are accessible via a cloud API. Fauna is a flexible, developer-friendly, transactional database delivered as a secure and scalable cloud API with native GraphQL. Never again worry about database provisioning, scaling, sharding, replication, or correctness.

The Fauna Query Language provides many built-in functions that can be used to query and modify a database. Functions, also known as user-defined functions (or UDFs), provide a mechanism to store and run commonly used Fauna queries.



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Free Plan

• 3 databases
• 10GB Storage
• 100 Million rows read/mo per DB
• 10 Million rows written/mo per DB

Paid Plans

The pricing for PlanetScale starts at:

• $1.25 per month per 1GB storage
• $15 per 100 Million rows read 
• $15 per 10 Million rows written

Example Pricing

Application with 10M read and 1M written calls would cost $1.5 + $1.5 + $1.25  = $4.25 USD

Free Plan

Free (forever) monthly capacity

• 100k read ops
• 50k write ops
• 500k compute ops
• 100Mb storage

Paid Plans

• From $23/month   - Good for professional developers building production applications.
• From $135/month - Good for teams of developers building rich applications.
• From $450/month - Good for enterprise teams building full-featured, global applications.

Example Pricing

Applications with 10M read ($4.50), 500K compute ($1.00) & 1M write ops ($2.25) &  1GB storage ($0.23) $6.98 USD

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Onboarding

Start building a database in production in 5 minutes.

Scalability

Automatically done through serverless technology.

Regions

PlanetScale currently offers database deployment in three regions. Select the region closest to your application servers to reduce latency between your database and application. Deploy branches in the region closest to your location to help reduce latency when interacting with the database.

Backups

​PlanetScale provides the ability to create, schedule, and restore backups for production and development database branches. In addition to the daily default backups that PlanetScale schedules for your database branches, you can create additional manual backups. 

Security

PlanetScale is SOC 2 Type II compliant. All data is stored encrypted at rest throughout the PlanetScale platform. This helps mitigate the risk of unintentional or malicious access to user data on storage systems.

Onboarding
Good documentation. Easy signup with the free plan. Cookbook to start easy. There could be a learning curve using FQL. the query language of Fauna. 

Scalability
Automatic scaling, sharding, and replication

Data residence Regions
United States, Europe. More coming soon
Region Groups provide control over where your data resides: each database, its storage, and its compute services exist in a specific geographic region. The capability makes it possible to comply with data locality legislation, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe while benefiting from Fauna’s distributed service features.

Backups 
Automatic backup, replication, and correctness. It makes three replicas in the United States if your region was the USA and the same for Europe. If you didn't select any specific region then Fauna will make two replication copies in the United States and one in Europe.

Europe: three replicas in Europe

Security
Supports JWT, ABAC-based role, and permissions. Identity and anonymous-based access.

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PlanetScale offers the following functionalities:

• Automated Deployment
• Creation (Development)
• Queries
• For Developers
• User Management
• Continuous Integration
  
• Online support
  
• Supports SQL

Whether you’re building new browser-based or mobile apps, augmenting your microservices, or modernizing existing systems, Fauna gives you the capabilities and the scale that you need without the complexity.

• Supports Document, Graph & key-value data models
• Distributed ACID transactions 
• Global low-latency
• Multi-tenant databases
• Real-time streaming
• No database operations