What people recommend, in their own words, with the receipt.
Managed database platform built on Vitess and Postgres
5 things
PostgreSQLSoftware
PlanetScale for Postgres uses real Postgres running on our proprietary operator meaning we can bring the maturity of PlanetScale and the performance of Metal to an even wider audience.
Announcing PlanetScale for Postgres
planetscale.com ↗·2025-07-01Wrong?
VitessSoftware
Vitess provides an abstraction over MySQL that adds missing functionality while retaining the benefits of a relational database and allows you to automate failure detection and recovery.
Why PlanetScale built on Vitess
planetscale.com ↗·2021-07-20Wrong?
GoSoftware Google
A part of this effort was a migration of all the integration tests written in Python to Go.
PlanetScale moves Vitess tests from Python to Go
planetscale.com ↗·2020-03-20Wrong?
MySQLSoftware
These are all features that vanilla MySQL cannot and does not provide.
Why PlanetScale built on Vitess
planetscale.com ↗·2021-07-20Wrong?
PythonSoftware
The Python tests were very time-consuming to develop and debug. The Python tests added additional install dependencies for anyone getting started as a contributor.
PlanetScale moves Vitess tests from Python to Go
planetscale.com ↗·2020-03-20Wrong?
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