About PlanetScale
PlanetScale brings Git-like branching workflows to databases. Built on Vitess, the technology that scales YouTube's database.
Key Features
- Database branching
- Zero-downtime migrations
- Built on Vitess
- Serverless scaling
- MySQL compatible
- Deploy requests
PlanetScale applies software engineering best practices to database management. Its signature feature is database branching — you can create a branch of your schema, make changes, and merge them back with a deploy request, just like a pull request for code. Built on Vitess (which powers YouTube), PlanetScale handles horizontal scaling transparently. The serverless pricing model means you pay for what you use rather than provisioning fixed capacity. PlanetScale has become popular among teams that want the reliability of MySQL with modern developer workflows and zero-downtime schema migrations.