Live data from Hacker News

PlanetScale – Database for Developers

planetscale.com

21–30 of 135 posts

Re: PlanetScale – Database for Developers

#21
post #4

It's not entirely clear from the website or the documentation, but this seems to be build exclusively for MySQL?

Yes we are MySQL compatible.

100% compatible? Is there a document with a compatibility matrix? Edit: I guess this is it: https://vitess.io/docs/reference/compatibility/mysql-compati....

Re: PlanetScale – Database for Developers

#26
Sounds interesting but there is not enough information for me to get a picture of what this actually means. Thought I was gonna be clever and install it, run it and see what it is all about but I can't figure out how to get it. One link is "sign up" and the other is "contact sales" but I'm not interested in either, I'm interested in "Download" but I cannot find it anywhere.

Am I stupid or misunderstanding something fundamentally here? Is just a hosted DB or something like that?

Re: PlanetScale – Database for Developers

#27
This is wonderful. I've been developing with relational databases for 12 years and couldn't be more excited about this.

Scaling down to 0 opens up a world of opportunities when it comes to team development workflows. The idea of quick environments per pull request is within reach.

Not to mention that it scales with you.

The one thing I'm curious about is how it compares with CockroachDB

Re: PlanetScale – Database for Developers

#28

Sounds interesting but there is not enough information for me to get a picture of what this actually means. Thought I was gonna be clever and install it, run it and see what it is all about but I can't figure out how to get it. One link is "sign up" and the other is "contact sales" but I'm not interested in either, I'm interested in "Download" but I cannot find it anywhere. Am I stupid or misunderstanding something f…

It's a hosted DB, and as far as I can tell the Killer Feature is that it makes schema updates less painful. How it does that without significant performance trade-offs or caps is unclear to me.

[EDIT] on reading further in their docs, my suspicion is that their "branching" concept is a hell of a lot more limited than I believed at first. I initially took it to mean you could have multiple active schemas working on your data at once—instead, I think it's more like exporting just the schema of your DB and importing it to a fresh DB, which is nothing new and doesn't run into all kinds of operational and security issues the other workflow would. I'm fairly sure all the actual magic is in the schema diffing, and the docs make me think even that isn't as fully-magical as one might hope.

Re: PlanetScale – Database for Developers

#30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds great! One question about pricing -- I can't tell if the "free" tier costs are for one month, or ongoing. That is, do you get the free tier amounts for one month and then pay from then on, or is that level of service free from then on?

The free tier provides the stated usage levels at no cost, indefinitely. So if you were to stay under the quotas of data size, writes and reads, you don't pay at all. When you go over, you just pay for what you use. No servers, no pre-committed capacity, just simply pay for what you use.

Does it mean you can write 10 million rows every month for free or does it mean you can write ten million rows, however many months that may take, and then pay for all use after that. The first one is how pricing generally works, but the page could be read as the second.
Post reply on HN