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PlanetScale

PlanetScale was founded in 2018 by the creators of Vitess - an open source project born at Youtube and hosted by CNCF th...

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What they do

Problem

Organizations need a way to run and scale high-volume transactional (OLTP) databases reliably across cloud environments without complex self-managed sharding and operations.

Solution

PlanetScale offers a massively scalable multi-cloud database-as-a-service built on Vitess and Kubernetes with enterprise support.

Who it's for

Developers and enterprises running large-scale OLTP applications that require horizontally scalable MySQL-compatible databases.

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