PlanetScale

About

PlanetScale is a fully managed relational database platform for Postgres and Vitess (MySQL-compatible) loved by indie hackers up to financial institutions and leading AI companies. It brings an AI-native developer experience to improve the performance and reliability of your Netlify apps and functions.

Both PlanetScale Postgres and PlanetScale Vitess run on high-performance infrastructure — including optional PlanetScale Metal with locally attached NVMe storage for high throughput and low latency. You get high availability, connection pooling, automated backups, Query Insights for performance visibility, and workflows that help teams ship database changes with confidence.

PlanetScale features horizontal sharding, Database Traffic Control®, and Git-like schema workflows such as branching, deploy requests, and non-blocking schema changes. Check the documentation for the most recent information about which features are available on each engine.

Connect from Netlify sites and Functions with standard Postgres or MySQL drivers — so your frontend and serverless workloads can rely on a production-ready database from day one.

Use Cases

Databases built for modern development

• Develop against isolated database environments, then promote changes with confidence.

Scale without becoming a database ops team

• Start small and grow on a platform you won’t need to migrate away from once you hit scale. Get up to date observability with Query Insights and have agents debug performance with the PlanetScale MCP Server.

Performance you can see and tune

• Use PlanetScale Query Insights data in the dashboard or MCP server to understand latency, load, and expensive queries so you and your agents can optimize what your Netlify app does in production.