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Looking for an alternative to PlanetScale? Here are 14 other database options to consider:

PlanetScale is a fully managed cloud database platform supporting both Vitess/MySQL and PostgreSQL, built by the engineers behind the infrastructure at YouTube, GitHub, Slack, and more. It runs on NVMe-backed servers for high performance and offers features like horizontal sharding, non-blocking schema changes, branching workflows, query insights, automated backups, and connection pooling, all designed to give development teams confidence and speed when working with production databases.

PlanetScale is geared toward engineering teams and companies that need reliable, scalable database infrastructure without the overhead of managing it themselves. Organizations like Cursor, Cash App, and Intercom rely on PlanetScale to handle millions of queries per second across hundreds of terabytes of data. Its branch-per-environment workflow lets teams safely iterate on schema changes, review diffs, and roll back without downtime or data loss.