Whats is Planetscale?

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.

Technical Details

PlanetScale offers the following functionalities:

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

Pricing

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

Performance

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.

Feedback

What do you think about Planetscale? This product is used by 7 companies & 8 companies wants to use it in future.