Why developers like PlanetScaleDB

What is PlanetScaleDB?

It is a fully managed cloud native database-as-a-service built on Vitess and Kubernetes. A MySQL compatible highly scalable database. Effortlessly deploy, manage, and monitor your databases in multiple regions and across cloud providers.

PlanetScaleDB is a tool in the SQL Database as a Service category of a tech stack.

Who uses PlanetScaleDB?

Companies

23 companies reportedly use PlanetScaleDB in their tech stacks, including Element Human, Ginetta, and observerly.

Element Human

Ginetta

observerly

You Got Bud

flux

Wundergraph

Core

Vevericka

IndyRIOT

Developers

59 developers on StackShare have stated that they use PlanetScaleDB.

My Stack

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keinsell

jarv.is

Wemakeapp

Tools I use in 2024

T3-Zen

Personal favorites

My Stack

PlanetScaleDB Integrations

MySQL, Kubernetes, Netlify, Airflow, and Vercel are some of the popular tools that integrate with PlanetScaleDB. Here's a list of all 8 tools that integrate with PlanetScaleDB.

MySQL

Kubernetes

Netlify

Airflow

Vercel

Prisma

Arctype

Unkey

Decisions about PlanetScaleDB

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose PlanetScaleDB in their tech stack.

Eric Cabrel TIOGO

Software Engineer · Dec 10, 2021 | 6 upvotes · 13.1K views

Needs advice

Amazon DynamoDB

and

PlanetScaleDB

Hello there! I want to build a web code-sharing tool, and I was wondering which database is suitable for storing source code and version. I thought about Amazon DynamoDB because it scales very well, but I'm afraid it could not satisfy all my access patterns. On the other hand, I have PlanetScaleDB, a serverless MySQL database meaning I will not have to worry about scaling, but I'm wondering if it is suitable for storing source code and accessing it quickly.

I want to use it on my blog to show source code on my posts. I have around 10k views per month, and a blog post has around 5 - 15 code snippets. It will continue to grow since I write frequently. So, I want a database that will not get swamped while blog posts and visitors increase.

Can you help me make a choice, please? I really appreciate any help you can provide.

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PlanetScaleDB's Features

Cloud-native database
MySQL Compatible
Branching
Sharding
Non-blocking schema changes
No Vendor Lock-In

PlanetScaleDB Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to PlanetScaleDB?

MySQL

The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.

PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions.

MongoDB

MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.

Redis

Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.

Amazon S3

Amazon Simple Storage Service provides a fully redundant data storage infrastructure for storing and retrieving any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web

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