How does planetscale for postgres scale? I understand that it's multi node postgres with automatic failover but I think it only really scales for reads and not writes? So is the only way to scale writes horizontally to shard?
PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA
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Re: PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA
#12This seems to be mainly aimed at existing PlanetScale customers. > To create a Postgres database, sign up or log in to your PlanetScale account, create a new database, and select Postgres. It does mention the sign up option but doesn't really give me much context about pricing or what it is. I know a bit, but I get confused by different database offerings, so it seems like a missed opportunity to give me two more sen…
PlanetScale (famously?) deprecated their free "Hobby" tier (plus fired their sales & marketing teams) back in 2024 to achieve profitability
Re: PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA
#13How does planetscale for postgres scale? I understand that it's multi node postgres with automatic failover but I think it only really scales for reads and not writes? So is the only way to scale writes horizontally to shard?
Kind of. For horizontally scaling writes we are building the Vitess for Postgres which we are calling Neki https://www.neki.dev/
The product we are GA'ing today has the option of PlanetScale Metal which is extremely fast and scales write QPS further than any of the other single-primary Postgres hosts.
Re: PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA
#14If anyone has questions about our Postgres product please feel free to ask. I will be around to answer.
How should one decide whether to go with MySQL or Postgres for a greenfield project?
Re: PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA
#15We’ve had early access to it for a while now, we’re already running a lot of performance critical workloads on it and it’s been working wonderfully. Congrats sam and the team on setting a new standard for what highly performant managed Postgres should look like :)
Re: PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA
#16How does planetscale for postgres scale? I understand that it's multi node postgres with automatic failover but I think it only really scales for reads and not writes? So is the only way to scale writes horizontally to shard?
Kind of. For horizontally scaling writes we are building the Vitess for Postgres which we are calling Neki https://www.neki.dev/ The product we are GA'ing today has the option of PlanetScale Metal which is extremely fast and scales write QPS further than any of the other single-primary Postgres hosts.
Thanks for the response, this clarifies things for me because I thought this was already a vitess for postgress implementation. Awesome to hear that this is coming.
Re: PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA
#17This seems to be mainly aimed at existing PlanetScale customers. > To create a Postgres database, sign up or log in to your PlanetScale account, create a new database, and select Postgres. It does mention the sign up option but doesn't really give me much context about pricing or what it is. I know a bit, but I get confused by different database offerings, so it seems like a missed opportunity to give me two more sen…
PlanetScale isnt' really designed for the "ill give it a go" casual customer that might use supabase It's designed for businesses that need to haul ass
businesses that 'need to haul ass' usually still want to try something out before buying it. That doesn't need to a a free plan, but it's common to offer some trial period to new users.
Also totally OK if planetscale doesn't do this and that $39/month _is_ the best way to try them out, I just think it would be good for them to make explicit in the article what I should do if I think I might want it but want to try it.
Re: PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA
#18If anyone has questions about our Postgres product please feel free to ask. I will be around to answer.
If neki becomes available later, do you expect that customers will be able to easily migrate over to it?
Re: PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA
#19If anyone has questions about our Postgres product please feel free to ask. I will be around to answer.
Extensions! Which pg extensions are you going to make available?
Re: PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA
#20If anyone has questions about our Postgres product please feel free to ask. I will be around to answer.
If neki becomes available later, do you expect that customers will be able to easily migrate over to it?
we will aim to make it as easy as possible and doable as an online process. with sharding there is always a chance that some application changes are needed so there might be some work required there.