Alternatives to Planetscale
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PlanetScale is a serverless MySQL-compatible database platform founded in 2018 by Jiten Vaidya and Nick Van Wiggeren, built on Vitess — the database clustering system developed at YouTube to scale MySQL to millions of queries per second. PlanetScale's killer feature is database branching: create database branches like Git branches, apply schema changes safely, and merge them to production with zero-downtime schema migrations.
Neon
Serverless Postgres with branching — PostgreSQL equivalent to PlanetScale, generous free tier
Supabase
Open-source Firebase alternative with Postgres — adds auth, storage, realtime beyond just DB
MySQL
Self-managed MySQL — PlanetScale is managed MySQL with branching; MySQL for full control
CockroachDB
Distributed SQL with PostgreSQL compatibility — stronger multi-region consistency than PlanetScale
Turso
Edge SQLite database — ultra-low latency at edge vs PlanetScale's centralized MySQL
Railway
Deployment platform with managed Postgres/MySQL — simpler all-in-one hosting alternative
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