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PlanetScale

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The world’s fastest and most scalable cloud databases

The world's most advanced serverless MySQL platform.

Features & use cases

  • Performance
  • Security
  • Shared PlanetScale features
  • PlanetScale Vitess features
  • PlanetScale Postgres features
  • Open source

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