🪐PlanetScale vs Neon🐘
PlanetScale is a serverless MySQL platform built on Vitess for huge scale. Neon is serverless Postgres with instant branching and scale-to-zero compute.
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🪐PlanetScale
- ✓Serverless MySQL built on battle-tested Vitess
- ✓Schema branching and non-blocking migrations
- ✓Horizontal sharding for massive scale
- ✓Strong reliability under heavy load
🐘Neon
- ✓Serverless Postgres with instant database branching
- ✓Scale-to-zero compute saves money when idle
- ✓Postgres compatibility with a huge ecosystem
- ✓Generous free tier for side projects
Verdict
PlanetScale wins for MySQL-based apps needing massive scale and safe migrations. Neon wins for Postgres apps wanting branching, scale-to-zero and ecosystem compatibility.
Frequently asked
Does PlanetScale use MySQL or Postgres?+
PlanetScale is MySQL-based on Vitess, while Neon is serverless Postgres.
Which supports database branching?+
Both support branching; Neon branches Postgres, PlanetScale branches schemas.
Which scales to zero?+
Neon offers scale-to-zero compute, pausing when the database is idle.
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