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About PlanetScale
Industries
Data & Analytics
Enterprise Software
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series C
Total Funding
$105M
Headquarters
Mountain View, California
Founded
2018
Overview
PlanetScale provides a serverless, MySQL‑compatible database platform designed for scalability, performance, and reliability while keeping the developer experience simple. It runs in the cloud and handles large, globally distributed workloads. The service works by using horizontal sharding to split data across multiple nodes, and non‑blocking schema changes so you can alter database structures without downtime. It also includes built‑in connection pooling and edge infrastructure to remove MySQL connection limits, plus Data Branches for isolated cloud copies of a database, eliminating the need for separate staging environments. The company differentiates itself with a fully managed, scalable MySQL‑compatible service that minimizes downtime and operational complexity, enabling developers to focus on building apps. Its goal is to give teams a scalable, reliable database that scales automatically as their applications grow while preserving a smooth, serverless developer experience.
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Google Cloud Marketplace availability expands enterprise procurement and adoption pathways.
- Rewind feature enables instant 30-minute schema migration rollbacks without data loss.
- Serverless JavaScript driver captures edge deployment workloads from competing platforms.
What critics are saying
- AWS Aurora Serverless v2 offers native MySQL sharding at 40% lower pricing.
- CockroachDB integrates Vitess-inspired sharding with PostgreSQL, poaching multi-model developers.
- Critical VReplication flaw in Vitess 18.0 causes data inconsistency during rewinds.
What makes PlanetScale unique
- Vitess-powered horizontal sharding eliminates application-level complexity for MySQL scaling.
- PlanetScale Boost accelerates queries up to 1000X without external caching infrastructure.
- Zero-downtime schema changes via branching and deploy requests prevent production disruptions.
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Funding
Total Funding
$105M
Meets
Industry Average
Funded Over
4 Rounds
Insight Partners
Kleiner Perkins
Andreessen Horowitz
BoxGroupIndustry standards
Benefits
Company Equity
Growth & Insights and Company News
6 month growth
↑ 0%1 year growth
↓ -7%2 year growth
↓ -9%PlanetScale ranked number 188 fastest-growing company in North America on the 2023 Deloitte Technology Fast 500™.
PlanetScale, the serverless database innovator powered by MySQL and Vitess, today announced availability of PlanetScale on Google Cloud Marketplace.
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Please replace the release with the following corrected version due to multiple revisions. The updated release reads:
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PlanetScale, the serverless database innovator powered by MySQL and Vitess, today announced PlanetScale Boost, a new product that improves query performance by up to 1000X and eliminates the need for external database caching. Developed at PlanetScale in less than six months, Boost adds to the competitive advantage that customers have when they build on top of PlanetScale, eliminating weeks of infrastructure and custom application work. Unlike other platforms that leverage off-the-shelf open source technology or build complex infrastructure to mimic this effect, Boost is novel technology based on cutting-edge research applied to solving real-world problems. Sitting next to, but apart from, the database, it operates transparently with no transactional overhead and none of the risk to stability of the platform that traditional caches introduce
In order to improve database accessibility from serverless edge deployments, PlanetScale recently launched serverless driver for JavaScript.
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About PlanetScale
Industries
Data & Analytics
Enterprise Software
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series C
Total Funding
$105M
Headquarters
Mountain View, California
Founded
2018
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