Blog - PlanetScale

October 14, 2020
Pitfalls of Isolation Levels in Distributed DatabasesThe more loosely coupled components are in a distributed system, the better it scales. This rule applies to distributed databases, too, and the isolation level plays a big part in this. This post attempts to explain what these isolation levels mean and the tradeoffs between them. We also give you recommendations on how to choose the isolation level best suited to your needs.

October 1, 2020

MySQL semi-sync replication: durability, consistency and split brains

MySQL semi-sync is a plugin mechanism on top of asynchronous replication, that can offer better durability and even consistency (term defined later).

September 25, 2020

Blog series: Consensus Algorithms at Scale - Part 3

Consensus Use Cases

September 18, 2020

Orchestrator failure detection and recovery: New Beginnings

Shlomi Noach, author of orchestrator, a powerful MySQL high availability solution, discusses its integration into Vitess.

September 8, 2020

Blog series: Consensus Algorithms at Scale - Part 2

The Rules of Consensus

September 1, 2020

On joining PlanetScale and the vision of open source database infrastructure

Shlomi Noach on why he joined PlanetScale to work on Vitess and PlanetScaleDB, and what he perceives Vitess can become in the MySQL open source ecosystem.

August 28, 2020

Blog series: Consensus Algorithms at Scale - Part 1

Breaking down consensus algorithms: building a new set of rules and principles using a variety of more flexible algorithms and achieving objectives with Vitess.

August 14, 2020

Learn Horizontal Scaling on PlanetScaleDB with Vitess — Rate Puppies in a Rust app with Sharded MySQL Database

PlanetScaleDB is a sharded database built on Vitess. Learn key sharding concepts and apply them using our quickstart demo and sample app for rating puppies written in Rust.

August 14, 2020

Demo: Multi-Cloud on PlanetScaleDB

Software engineer Abhi Vaidyanatha walks us through a live deployment of a true multi-cloud Vitess cluster on PlanetScaleDB

How to set up a scalable, stateful web app in 10 minutes

You can set up a fully persistent web-app for free in 10 minutes. Don't believe us? To find out how, check out this blog post by PlanetScale engineer William Gordon that highlights the synergy between Vercel and PlanetScaleDB.

Announcing Vitess 7

On behalf of the Vitess maintainers team, I am pleased to announce the general availability of Vitess 7. Major Themes Improved SQL Support We continued to progress towards (almost) full MySQL compatibility.

Announcing PlanetScaleDB for Kubernetes - production grade databases in your own Kubernetes with the ease of SaaS

Bring your own Kubernetes! Use the PlanetScaleDB control plane hosted by us to deploy, manage, and monitor single and multi-sharded MySQL databases conveniently in your own Kubernetes clusters using the PlanetScaleDB operator.

Debunking 3 myths about Vitess fault tolerance

What is the reliability of Vitess and its capabilities with regards to data loss? Read this post which debunks myths about Vitess and address some lingering questions about how Vitess handles failures.

PlanetScale open-sources Kubernetes operator for Vitess

We open-sourced the Vitess Operator that allows users to easily deploy databases in Kubernetes with many benefits including scale, high availability, and backups.

ACID Transactions are not just for banks - the Vitess approach

Build systems that do not lose data. Vitess prevents asynchronous failure in two ways: (1) ensuring that the changes are saved locally on storage, with the redo log and binary logs safely written to disk and (2) making use of semi-synchronous replication.

Announcing Vitess 6

I am excited to announce the general availability of Vitess 6, the second release to follow our new accelerated release schedule.

Videos: Intro to Vitess—its powerful capabilities and how to get started

This video playlist featuring Vitess co-creator, Sugu Sougoumarane, is an excellent resource to learn more about the features and capabilities of open source Vitess.

Behind the Scenes at PlanetScale Engineering: Why is Multi-Cloud a Hard Problem?

With the recent release of our new multi-cloud offering, the PlanetScale engineering team achieved a feat that has never been done before: enabling a database-as-a-service to replicate across the three major cloud providers. Learn how we did it.

PlanetScale prepares for interplanetary database clusters

PlanetScaleDB provides out-of-this-world availability and fault tolerance for your databases by supporting regions outside of Earth.

How to deploy a true multi-cloud database on PlanetScaleDB

We’ve made it easy to set up a multi-region or multi-cloud database. While our multi-cloud and multi-region databases on PlanetScaleDB are in beta and should not be used for production workloads, you can get started right away by creating an account.

PlanetScaleDB delivers true multi-cloud, multi-region clusters on AWS, GCP, and Azure

True multi-cloud, multi-region clusters for PlanetScaleDB now available in beta release on AWS, GCP, and Azure.

PlanetScale migrates open source Vitess test suite from Python to Go

It's easier than ever to contribute to Vitess. The test suite migration from Python to golang makes Vitess more developer friendly.

PlanetScale CNDb renamed to PlanetScaleDB

PlanetScaleDB is the new name for our cloud native database-as-a-service previously called PlanetScale CNDb

Security Update: New GCR Based Planetscale Public Registry

If you are still pulling from registry.planetscale.com, you should update all your systems to instead pull from us.gcr.io/planetscale-vitess by March 26, 2020.

February 21, 2020

Trip Report | PlanetScale Team at FOSDEM 2020

The PlanetScale team talks at preFOSDEM 2020 on "MySQL Server Usability Guidelines" and "Vitess: the sharding solution for MySQL 8.0".

December 8, 2019

PlanetScale and Vitess at KubeCon NA 2019

PlanetScale headed to San Diego for KubeCon + Cloud NativeCon and celebrated the general availability of PlanetScale CNDb, the cloud native database powered by Vitess.