PlanetScale is the world’s most scalable and reliable OLTP database. Built on Vitess, our cloud platform is trusted by some of the world’s largest brands. We offer a range of deployment options including multi-tenant cloud, single-tenant, or bring your own cloud account with PlanetScale Managed.
Vitess allows MySQL databases to scale horizontally through sharding. Enabling the distribution of data and load across thousands of nodes, all presenting as a single database.
Vitess was developed at YouTube by the founders of PlanetScale to scale their main MySQL database to petabytes of data on 70,000 nodes across 20 data centers. Now a CNCF-graduated open source project, Vitess powers the databases of some of the web’s largest properties: Slack, HubSpot, Blizzard, Etsy, GitHub, Block, Bloomberg, and Yelp.
Every time you spin up a PlanetScale database, a Vitess cluster is deployed under the hood giving you scalability from day 1 to day 10000.