# PlanetScale

The world's fastest and most scalable cloud databases.

Canonical page: https://indiestore.co/product/planetscale
Official website: https://planetscale.com/
Category: Databases
Audience: Engineering teams, enterprises, and high-growth startups running Tier 0 production databases that require extreme performance, horizontal scalability, and enterprise-grade reliability.

## About
Vitess and Postgres on bare-metal NVMe with unlimited IOPS — the database infrastructure trusted by Slack, GitHub, Cursor, HubSpot, and Cash App.

## Overview
PlanetScale hosts Vitess (a MySQL-compatible horizontally sharded database) and Postgres, both on bare-metal NVMe hardware for maximum IOPS. Features include Database Traffic Control (resource budgets for query traffic), bring-your-own-cloud with PlanetScale Managed, and multiple deployment options for security and compliance requirements. Trusted by Slack, HubSpot, GitHub, Blizzard, Cursor, and Cash App.

## Questions and answers
### What is Vitess and why does PlanetScale use it?
Vitess is an open-source database clustering system for MySQL that enables horizontal sharding — splitting data across many database nodes — to scale to petabytes of data and millions of queries per second. It was originally built at YouTube and is now maintained by PlanetScale. It powers databases at Slack, GitHub, HubSpot, and many other large-scale companies.

### Does PlanetScale support PostgreSQL or only MySQL/Vitess?
PlanetScale now supports both Vitess (MySQL-compatible) and PostgreSQL. Both run on the same bare-metal NVMe infrastructure for maximum performance. You can choose the database engine that best fits your stack.

### What is Database Traffic Control?
Database Traffic Control is a PlanetScale feature that lets you set resource budgets for your Postgres query traffic. It gives teams visibility and control over which queries consume the most database resources, helping prevent runaway queries from degrading performance for other workloads.

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