Name: PlanetScale
Author: PlanetScale

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PlanetScale is an advanced MySQL platform offered by PlanetScale, Inc. that aims to provide scalable and reliable database solutions for businesses of various sizes. According to the vendor, PlanetScale is suitable for small to large enterprises across a range of industries, including engineering and technology, e-commerce and retail, media and entertainment, healthcare and life sciences, and financial services.

## Key Features

**PlanetScale Boost**: According to the vendor, PlanetScale Boost is a feature that improves query performance through a real-time query cache. It automatically handles cache invalidation, eliminating the need for TTLs, invalidation logic, and caching infrastructure maintenance.

**Insights**: The vendor claims that Insights is a fully integrated and real-time feature that provides insights into database performance. It eliminates the need for third-party application monitoring platforms and helps identify and resolve poor performing queries. Additionally, it offers visibility into billing usage and query scanning.

**Branching**: PlanetScale offers the Branching feature, which allows users to branch the database similar to branching code. According to the vendor, Data Branches® provide isolated copies of the database in the cloud, eliminating the need for staging environments. This enables safe testing and development of database changes.

**Schema Diff**: The Schema Diff feature visualizes schema changes as code, simplifying the deployment of schema changes to production. According to the vendor, it helps review and track schema changes without the need for locking or downtime during deployment.

**Schema Revert**: According to the vendor, the Schema Revert feature enables instant rollback of problematic schema changes without data loss. It retains data changes made prior to the revert, providing a safe and efficient way to manage schema migrations.

**Regions**: PlanetScale offers the Regions feature, which allows scaling to the edge with read-only database regions. The vendor claims that it reduces database read latency by minimizing the geographic distance between users and data. Additionally, it supports the addition of regions with low operational overhead, enabling globally distributed applications.

**Connect**: According to the vendor, the Connect feature makes PlanetScale data accessible across the organization. It allows the safe extraction and loading of data from PlanetScale into other databases, supporting analytical workflows with data extraction to sources like BigQuery, Snowflake, or Redshift.

**Security and Privacy**: PlanetScale provides security and privacy features, including SOC 2 Type II reporting for continuous monitoring and reporting. According to the vendor, it also offers the ability to enter into Business Associate Agreements (BAAs) for HIPAA compliance. Encryption in transit and at rest is provided for enhanced data security.

**Data Imports**: The Data Imports feature allows users to migrate data to PlanetScale in three simple steps while keeping the existing database running. According to the vendor, it enables fully online migration with no downtime, eliminating the need to dump data or restore from backup.

**CLI**: PlanetScale provides a Command Line Interface (CLI) that offers a fully functional shell for managing the database via the command line. According to the vendor, it allows importing data, querying, and other database management tasks, simplifying database connection and management.


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Version control tools ensure code integrity is maintained in a team coding environment

Test data generation

Generation of randomized or real-world test data

Performance optimization tools

Performance optimization tools measure and maintain overall responsiveness and efficiency of queries, database structures, etc.

Schema maintenance

Maintaining schema integrity via regular maintenance

Database change management

Automated scripts for implementing database changes

Database Administration

Tools to help database administrators manage and maintain databases in optimal conditions

User management

Tools to help manage user and role administration

Database security

Security maintenance such as authorization management, log analysis, database auditing

Database status reporting

Detailed reports on database performance, configuration, security, vulnerabilities, etc.

Change management

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