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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.