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PlanetScale is Vitess MySQL (plus Postgres) with branching; CockroachDB is distributed SQL for multi-region resilience — https://saaskart.co/software/cockroachd

Both offer branching; Neon is serverless Postgres with scale-to-zero, PlanetScale is Vitess MySQL (plus Postgres) for horizontal scale — https://saaskart.co/sof

Developers, startups, and companies running production MySQL/Postgres at scale who want great DX are the sweet spot — https://saaskart.co/software/planetscale.

MongoDB is document/NoSQL; PlanetScale is relational MySQL/Postgres with horizontal scale via Vitess — https://saaskart.co/software/planetscale vs https://saask

RDS/Aurora are AWS-managed databases; PlanetScale adds branching, deploy requests, Vitess scale, and query insights — https://saaskart.co/software/planetscale.

Supabase is a Postgres backend-as-a-service (auth, APIs, storage); PlanetScale focuses on scalable MySQL/Postgres with branching — https://saaskart.co/software/

Yes — alongside MySQL (Vitess), PlanetScale now offers managed Postgres on the same platform — https://saaskart.co/software/planetscale. Engine choice adds fle

Vitess is the MySQL sharding system that ran YouTube; it enables horizontal scale, pooling, and HA — https://saaskart.co/software/planetscale. Vitess is proven

Branching creates isolated DB copies to test schema changes, then merges to production via deploy requests — Git-like and zero-downtime — https://saaskart.co/so

Dev from ~$5/mo, Vitess MySQL ~$39/mo (3-node HA), Base from ~$69 + usage ($150-600 typical), Metal ~$50, Enterprise custom — https://saaskart.co/software/plane

No — the free Hobby tier ended April 2024; dev databases start ~$5/mo, production via Scaler/Base/Metal — https://saaskart.co/software/planetscale. The free ti

PlanetScale brings a Git-like workflow to databases: branch, change schema, and merge via non-blocking deploy requests — no table locks — https://saaskart.co/so