PlanetScale Announces General Availability of Infinitely Scalable Serverless MySQL Database

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 16, 2021 — PlanetScale, the serverless database powered by Vitess and MySQL, today announced general availability of its enterprise platform, announced as a private beta in May 2021. PlanetScale’s cloud database can be created in seconds and grows as its users’ needs grow, with no limitations on scalability. The latest version of the PlanetScale platform builds on other industry-first capabilities including branching and sharding with the addition of PlanetScale Imports.

“Engineering teams everywhere are seeking velocity and a faster time to market, and, historically, databases have been a point of friction for developers,” said Rachel Stephens, senior analyst, RedMonk. “With its Git-like workflow and developer tools, PlanetScale aims to accelerate developer workflows, bringing developer-centric features and functionality to the database.” For more information about PlanetScale, please see the RedMonk “What Is – How To” video here.

Customers of PlanetScale include GitHub, New Relic, Slack, MyFitnessPal, Square, Affirm and Community.com. PlanetScale currently serves 100s million queries a day across thousands of databases. The newest version of the platform, also announced today, builds on other industry-first capabilities including database branching and sharding and the first-of-its-kind PlanetScale Managed Cloud, which allows companies to utilize their developer experience within their own cloud instance.

PlanetScale is built atop Vitess, the peerlessly-powerful open source database that underlies YouTube, Slack, Square and Airbnb. PlanetScale is a developer-first database requiring no knowledge or selection of all the usual cloud zones, cluster sizes and other database-centric details that others require and that increase complexity for developers. PlanetScale accelerates companies’ success by being both the best choice for developers on day one, when they create their company, and the most scalable choice when they hit hyperscale.

New innovations in PlanetScale include:

• External Database Imports (beta): PlanetScale Imports leverages Vitess’s powerful vReplication feature to let users easily import data from any existing MySQL database — at no cost — with a few mouse clicks and zero downtime. They can then try PlanetScale’s developer-first workflow on their actual data, with PlanetScale continuing to import data as it’s written to the existing database.
• Prisma Integration: PlanetScale and Prisma have partnered to allow developers to create PlanetScale databases in the new Prisma Data Platform. Users can have a starter database schema and a live PlanetScale database ready to accept thousands of new database connections with a few clicks. The new Prisma Data Platform lets users get started with PlanetScale and Prisma without leaving the browser. PlanetScale databases can instantly use the Prisma Data Platform’s Query Builder, Data Explorer, and Data Proxy, with Prisma providing application templates with Prisma data schemas.
• Next.js Starter App: A new Next.js starter app can be deployed to Netlify with the “Deploy to Netlify” button, using NextAuth.js for built-in authentication and Prisma to interact with the PlanetScale database. This builds on an integration announced previously with Vercel, through which Vercel auto-generates access tokens and connects apps to PlanetScale with zero config needed.

“Our goal at PlanetScale is to make the database a joy for developers so that they can focus on creating the next big thing and giving their users what they want, instead of focusing on the database,” said Sam Lambert, CEO of PlanetScale. “The response we received from our beta users ahead of the GA today told us we were achieving that goal. The ability to import other databases, quickly, easily and at no cost, will enable us to do so for millions more.”

About PlanetScale

PlanetScale is upending the database industry with a true serverless experience that takes the headache out of database management. Database imports, alongside branching, sharding and non-blocking schema changes increase developer velocity while reducing database fragility and ensuring production databases never have downtime. PlanetScale is built on battle-tested Vitess, a graduated CNCF open source project used by GitHub, HubSpot, Slack and Square to serve millions of queries per second. PlanetScale reduces time-to-market for new applications and eliminates the cost and effort of managing database infrastructure. PlanetScale is backed by a16z, SignalFire, Insight and Kleiner Perkins and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA. To learn more, visit planetscale.com.

Source: PlanetScale