PlanetScale is now generally available
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PlanetScale is now generally available
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Re: PlanetScale is now generally available
#2If you don't know what PlanetScale is, it is a serverless database offering. It is compatible with MySQL and offers lots of tooling on top of it. More here: https://docs.planetscale.com/
When I looked at it a few months ago, it had some limitations (lack of referential integrity, MySQL version compatibility) but I'm not sure if they've been addressed (or, in some cases, if they are possible to address).
Anyway, always nice to see more competition in such a fundamentally important space, so congrats!
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#3Vitess is awesome. Nice to see that there is the managed offering available too now!
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#4Open source, serverless, developer experience, really going for SEO with this blog. But it doesn't say anything about what the product does or that it's MySQL compatible. Don't waste your time reading it.
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#5It's nice that they have solved backups in a very respectable manner which alleviates the feeling of being locked in.
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#6So does this share MySQL’s weaknesses? As someone that used MySQL for over a decade before seeing the light and switching to Postgres, I’d be more reassured if this wasn’t compatible with any existing RDBMS than with it being MySQL compatible.
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#7I am having trouble understanding what a "Serveless Database" is. When I do a search of the term, I get hype, not a definition. For example:
"What is Serverless Database?
Serverless Database is a prerequisite for Serverless Computing. These are specially designed for the workloads which are unpredictable and can change rapidly. What’s more? This allows you to pay only for the database resources you use, on a second-by-second basis. ..."
I would really appreciate it if someone would give us a clear definition of this term.
Re: PlanetScale is now generally available
#8If you don't know what PlanetScale is, it is a serverless database offering. It is compatible with MySQL and offers lots of tooling on top of it. More here: https://docs.planetscale.com/ When I looked at it a few months ago, it had some limitations (lack of referential integrity, MySQL version compatibility) but I'm not sure if they've been addressed (or, in some cases, if they are possible to address). Anyway, alway…
The referential integrity piece (otherwise known as Foreign Keys) will not be addressed and is a limitation - some might say feature - of Vitess. They wrote a pretty good piece about it here, https://docs.planetscale.com/tutorials/operating-without-for...
Re: PlanetScale is now generally available
#9So does this share MySQL’s weaknesses? As someone that used MySQL for over a decade before seeing the light and switching to Postgres, I’d be more reassured if this wasn’t compatible with any existing RDBMS than with it being MySQL compatible.
What made you switch to Postgres?
Re: PlanetScale is now generally available
#10I am having trouble understanding what a "Serveless Database" is. When I do a search of the term, I get hype, not a definition. For example: "What is Serverless Database? Serverless Database is a prerequisite for Serverless Computing. These are specially designed for the workloads which are unpredictable and can change rapidly. What’s more? This allows you to pay only for the database resources you use, on a second-b…
“Pay for only what you use” database.