PlanetScale
@planetscale.com
The database platform built for scale. Postgres and Vitess/MySQL.
https://planetscale.com
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Discord: http://discord.gg/pDUGAAFEJx
Status: http://planetscalestatus.com
You can now provision dedicated PgBouncers for your Postgres replicas.
This gives you a connection pool that evenly distributes connections across your available replicas, making it simple to scale out read-only traffic.
This gives you a connection pool that evenly distributes connections across your available replicas, making it simple to scale out read-only traffic.
November 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
You can now provision dedicated PgBouncers for your Postgres replicas.
This gives you a connection pool that evenly distributes connections across your available replicas, making it simple to scale out read-only traffic.
This gives you a connection pool that evenly distributes connections across your available replicas, making it simple to scale out read-only traffic.
We just shipped IP restrictions for PlanetScale Postgres databases. You can now restrict connections to specific IP ranges.
Learn more in the docs: planetscale.com/docs/postgre...
Learn more in the docs: planetscale.com/docs/postgre...
November 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
We just shipped IP restrictions for PlanetScale Postgres databases. You can now restrict connections to specific IP ranges.
Learn more in the docs: planetscale.com/docs/postgre...
Learn more in the docs: planetscale.com/docs/postgre...
PlanetScale Metal continuously comes out on top compared to other cloud database providers. Unlike other options w/ local NVMe drives, PlanetScale Metal runs in AWS and GCP, not our own data centers.
This make for a blazing fast database while staying close to your other infrastructure.
This make for a blazing fast database while staying close to your other infrastructure.
October 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
PlanetScale Metal continuously comes out on top compared to other cloud database providers. Unlike other options w/ local NVMe drives, PlanetScale Metal runs in AWS and GCP, not our own data centers.
This make for a blazing fast database while staying close to your other infrastructure.
This make for a blazing fast database while staying close to your other infrastructure.
We've added 5 new columns to Insights for Postgres databases.
These reveal block-level read and write behavior, helping you better understand the effect of the shared buffer cache on your query performance.
Read more: planetscale.com/changelog/po...
These reveal block-level read and write behavior, helping you better understand the effect of the shared buffer cache on your query performance.
Read more: planetscale.com/changelog/po...
October 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
We've added 5 new columns to Insights for Postgres databases.
These reveal block-level read and write behavior, helping you better understand the effect of the shared buffer cache on your query performance.
Read more: planetscale.com/changelog/po...
These reveal block-level read and write behavior, helping you better understand the effect of the shared buffer cache on your query performance.
Read more: planetscale.com/changelog/po...
Postgres 17 vs 18.
How does read performance compare between the two? What is the best server configuration to maximize performance?
Check out our latest blog for detailed benchmarks.
How does read performance compare between the two? What is the best server configuration to maximize performance?
Check out our latest blog for detailed benchmarks.
October 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Postgres 17 vs 18.
How does read performance compare between the two? What is the best server configuration to maximize performance?
Check out our latest blog for detailed benchmarks.
How does read performance compare between the two? What is the best server configuration to maximize performance?
Check out our latest blog for detailed benchmarks.
New region alert! 🌍
You can now create Postgres and Vitess databases in the europe-west1 region in GCP (Belgium).
You can now create Postgres and Vitess databases in the europe-west1 region in GCP (Belgium).
October 8, 2025 at 8:32 PM
New region alert! 🌍
You can now create Postgres and Vitess databases in the europe-west1 region in GCP (Belgium).
You can now create Postgres and Vitess databases in the europe-west1 region in GCP (Belgium).
Schema recommendations are available for Postgres databases. We analyze your database daily and provide recommendations for optimization:
- Remove redundant indexes
- Prevent primary key ID exhaustion
- Drop unused tables and indexes
- Rebuild bloated tables and indexes
- Remove redundant indexes
- Prevent primary key ID exhaustion
- Drop unused tables and indexes
- Rebuild bloated tables and indexes
October 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Schema recommendations are available for Postgres databases. We analyze your database daily and provide recommendations for optimization:
- Remove redundant indexes
- Prevent primary key ID exhaustion
- Drop unused tables and indexes
- Rebuild bloated tables and indexes
- Remove redundant indexes
- Prevent primary key ID exhaustion
- Drop unused tables and indexes
- Rebuild bloated tables and indexes
Vitess databases on PlanetScale support sophisticated vector search.
We've published a deep-dive on how we built this for MySQL in a way that is scalable, performant, and ACID-compliant.
We've published a deep-dive on how we built this for MySQL in a way that is scalable, performant, and ACID-compliant.
October 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Vitess databases on PlanetScale support sophisticated vector search.
We've published a deep-dive on how we built this for MySQL in a way that is scalable, performant, and ACID-compliant.
We've published a deep-dive on how we built this for MySQL in a way that is scalable, performant, and ACID-compliant.
Migrate your Postgres database to PlanetScale, fast.
Our migration-scripts repo has tools for migrating:
- Postgres → PlanetScale PG (Logical or DMS)
- Heroku PG → PlanetScale PG (via Bucardo)
- Postgres → Vitess
Our migration-scripts repo has tools for migrating:
- Postgres → PlanetScale PG (Logical or DMS)
- Heroku PG → PlanetScale PG (via Bucardo)
- Postgres → Vitess
September 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Migrate your Postgres database to PlanetScale, fast.
Our migration-scripts repo has tools for migrating:
- Postgres → PlanetScale PG (Logical or DMS)
- Heroku PG → PlanetScale PG (via Bucardo)
- Postgres → Vitess
Our migration-scripts repo has tools for migrating:
- Postgres → PlanetScale PG (Logical or DMS)
- Heroku PG → PlanetScale PG (via Bucardo)
- Postgres → Vitess
We just added 4 new Insights columns for Postgres databases to track per-query pattern CPU and I/O utilization.
- Cumulative CPU time
- Cumulative I/O time
- % of CPU time
- % of I/O time
- Cumulative CPU time
- Cumulative I/O time
- % of CPU time
- % of I/O time
September 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
We just added 4 new Insights columns for Postgres databases to track per-query pattern CPU and I/O utilization.
- Cumulative CPU time
- Cumulative I/O time
- % of CPU time
- % of I/O time
- Cumulative CPU time
- Cumulative I/O time
- % of CPU time
- % of I/O time
Postgres: process-per-connection
MySQL: thread-per-connection
Learn more about processes, threads, connection pooling, and how they impact database performance in our latest interactive article.
MySQL: thread-per-connection
Learn more about processes, threads, connection pooling, and how they impact database performance in our latest interactive article.
September 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Postgres: process-per-connection
MySQL: thread-per-connection
Learn more about processes, threads, connection pooling, and how they impact database performance in our latest interactive article.
MySQL: thread-per-connection
Learn more about processes, threads, connection pooling, and how they impact database performance in our latest interactive article.
Minimizing query latency is crucial for keeping your databases performant and your applications fast.
Learn how to use Insights to identify slow queries.
Learn how to use Insights to identify slow queries.
September 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Minimizing query latency is crucial for keeping your databases performant and your applications fast.
Learn how to use Insights to identify slow queries.
Learn how to use Insights to identify slow queries.
We give users full control over the size and capabilities of their network-attached Postgres storage. Tune minimum size, maximum autoscaling, IOPS, and throughput.
September 4, 2025 at 3:21 PM
We give users full control over the size and capabilities of their network-attached Postgres storage. Tune minimum size, maximum autoscaling, IOPS, and throughput.
PlanetScale Metal runs in AWS and GCP, making it easy to deploy your database and application near each other.
August 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
PlanetScale Metal runs in AWS and GCP, making it easy to deploy your database and application near each other.
Postgres 13 goes end-of-life November 2025.
Learn how to migrate a Postgres 13 database to PlanetScale in our new video guide.
Learn how to migrate a Postgres 13 database to PlanetScale in our new video guide.
August 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Postgres 13 goes end-of-life November 2025.
Learn how to migrate a Postgres 13 database to PlanetScale in our new video guide.
Learn how to migrate a Postgres 13 database to PlanetScale in our new video guide.
We give our customers deep observability into their Postgres databases.
From the metrics page, to query insights, and advanced log search, you have all the tools you need to monitor the situation.
From the metrics page, to query insights, and advanced log search, you have all the tools you need to monitor the situation.
August 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
We give our customers deep observability into their Postgres databases.
From the metrics page, to query insights, and advanced log search, you have all the tools you need to monitor the situation.
From the metrics page, to query insights, and advanced log search, you have all the tools you need to monitor the situation.
We’ve been hard at work building the most scalable and reliable sharding solution for Postgres.
A great piece of software deserves a great name and iconography.
Say hello to Neki.
A great piece of software deserves a great name and iconography.
Say hello to Neki.
August 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
We’ve been hard at work building the most scalable and reliable sharding solution for Postgres.
A great piece of software deserves a great name and iconography.
Say hello to Neki.
A great piece of software deserves a great name and iconography.
Say hello to Neki.
You can now manage Postgres roles via the database settings page and API.
August 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
You can now manage Postgres roles via the database settings page and API.
Postgres or Vitess? Metal or EBS? AWS or GCP?
Configure your database exactly how you want with PlanetScale.
Configure your database exactly how you want with PlanetScale.
August 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Postgres or Vitess? Metal or EBS? AWS or GCP?
Configure your database exactly how you want with PlanetScale.
Configure your database exactly how you want with PlanetScale.
Migrating to PlanetScale for Postgres allowed supermemory.ai to:
- Reduce cost
- Improve performance
- Significantly lower p99 latency
Read all about it on their blog (link below)
- Reduce cost
- Improve performance
- Significantly lower p99 latency
Read all about it on their blog (link below)
August 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Migrating to PlanetScale for Postgres allowed supermemory.ai to:
- Reduce cost
- Improve performance
- Significantly lower p99 latency
Read all about it on their blog (link below)
- Reduce cost
- Improve performance
- Significantly lower p99 latency
Read all about it on their blog (link below)
We've brought PlanetScale Insights to Postgres.
This gives developers deep observability into query performance, index usage, anomaly detection, and more.
This gives developers deep observability into query performance, index usage, anomaly detection, and more.
August 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
We've brought PlanetScale Insights to Postgres.
This gives developers deep observability into query performance, index usage, anomaly detection, and more.
This gives developers deep observability into query performance, index usage, anomaly detection, and more.
The scalability of Vitess combined with the performance of PlanetScale Metal gives you the best of all worlds: performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
Learn more about how it works:
Learn more about how it works:
July 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The scalability of Vitess combined with the performance of PlanetScale Metal gives you the best of all worlds: performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
Learn more about how it works:
Learn more about how it works:
Swing by the PlanetScale booth if you're at Rails Conf this week!
July 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Swing by the PlanetScale booth if you're at Rails Conf this week!
PlanetScale now supports Postgres.
July 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
PlanetScale now supports Postgres.
Scaling with @prisma.io and PlanetScale has never been easier. You can now define shard keys on your Prisma models using the shardKey attribute.
🔗 planetscale.com/docs/vitess/...
🔗 planetscale.com/docs/vitess/...
June 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Scaling with @prisma.io and PlanetScale has never been easier. You can now define shard keys on your Prisma models using the shardKey attribute.
🔗 planetscale.com/docs/vitess/...
🔗 planetscale.com/docs/vitess/...