2 years ago

Category: Business, Database, Data, Kubernetes, github

The origin story of https://vitess.io/ is oft-told: by 2010, YouTube was growing so fast, its database couldn’t keep up anymore, so the company created Vitess, a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL. PlanetScale is a https://thenewstack.io/category/serverless/ MySQL database powered by https://vitess.io/ that gives its users the ability to launch a database in seconds with what the company says is “no limitations on scalability.” https://www.linkedin.com/in/isamlambert, who joined PlanetScale a little over a year ago as its chief product officer and now serves as PlanetScale CEO, said it was this ability, among many others, that excited him to join the company.

The company has also launched the beta of an external database import tool that uses Vitess’s vReplication features to bring in data from any existing MySQL database.

Now, PlanetScale operates fully on Kubernetes, but the company intends to abstract away the Kubernetes aspect for its users entirely.