PlanetScale’s foundation
Vitess
A battle-hardened open source technology hosting some of the largest sites on the Internet.
Why Vitess
Vitess is the cloud native, open source technology powering PlanetScale.
Horizontal Scale
Transparent horizontal sharding allows for an unlimited number of database shards without adding complexity to your application.
High Availability
Vitess’s primary replica configuration allows for seamless failover from a primary to a replica when unexpected events occur.
MySQL Compatible
Migrate your existing MySQL applications with minimal changes while leveraging your MySQL expertise to achieve massive scale.
Online Schema Migrations
Integration with pt-online-schema-change and gh-ost makes it easy to track, control, or cancel schema migrations within a simple interface.
Materialized Views
Define materialized views that update continuously or perform real-time roll ups and data transformation without impacting your databases.
Kubernetes Native
Developed at YouTube to run on Borg, the inspiration for Kubernetes, Vitess is ideally suited for running databases in Kubernetes.