PlanetScale

Name: PlanetScale
Rating: 4.65 (17 reviews)

The ultimate MySQL database platform

4.7•17 reviews•

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The ultimate MySQL database platform

4.7•17 reviews•

136 followers

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A MySQL-compatible database that brings you scale, performance, and reliability without sacrificing developer experience.

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PlanetScale Metal The fastest way to run databases in AWS or GCP

Launched on March 12th, 2025

PlanetScale Connect Extract, load, and transform your data

Launched on May 26th, 2022

PlanetScale Portals Replicate your production database across the globe

Launched on May 24th, 2022

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4.7

Based on 17 reviews

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Reviews praise PlanetScale’s reliability, speed, and developer workflow, with strong endorsements from makers. The makers of

Graphy

cite scaling to hundreds of thousands of daily requests. The makers of

Superwall

report going from zero to billions of devices with minimal overhead. The makers of

Campsite

highlight easy management and smooth deploy requests. Users love branching and zero-downtime changes but note the removed free tier, surprise costs, occasional downtime, CLI scripting needs for CI, and missing foreign keys and richer GUI tools.

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scalability (5)

developer-friendly (4)

database branching (2)

excellent customer support (2)

fast performance (2)

reliable (2)

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PageAI

•37 reviews

I've been a PlanetScale user for many months now and overall I can say it's a good, performant database. During this time there was an incident that resulted in downtime (I think it was around an hour or so?). Otherwise it's been running smooth otherwise. I like some of the ideas they are pushing too. Since I'm a solo developer I can't make use of the team features but I do use branching for myself and it's a nice safety net. Keep in mind there is no foreign key support although they are working on it. I'm looking forward to that. Also, there is no GUI or DBMS - just a SQL console. Not sure if they plan to add that but I felt it's missing every now and then.

What's great

fast performance (2)database branching (2)

What needs improvement

no foreign key support (1)no GUI or DBMS (1)downtime incidents (1)

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2yr ago

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Heima

(176 points)

•8 reviews

PlanetScale has completely transformed how we manage our database. Its scalable, serverless architecture makes it easy to handle large volumes of data without the hassle of manual scaling or infrastructure management. We can deploy changes seamlessly, and its compatibility with MySQL makes it familiar yet incredibly powerful. PlanetScale’s branching and data versioning features make managing database schema changes painless and safe. With its high availability and fast performance, we can focus on building features instead of worrying about database management.

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9mo ago

•6 reviews

I don't love the recent changes of PlanetScale to remove their free tier. That said, their database branching workflow is absolutely the best I've used as a dev. I can easily spin up a branch for working on a new feature and make a merge request with schema changes just like I would git. The only gotcha here is that to make it work well in CI, you have to write a few scripts with their cli to avoid doing things manually.

What's great

database branching (2)

What needs improvement

removed free tier (1)

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2yr ago

PageAI

•37 reviews

What's great

fast performance (2)database branching (2)

What needs improvement

no foreign key support (1)no GUI or DBMS (1)downtime incidents (1)

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2yr ago

used this to build Heima

Heima

(176 points)

•8 reviews

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9mo ago

•6 reviews

What's great

database branching (2)

What needs improvement

removed free tier (1)

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2yr ago

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