PlanetScale

A managed database platform for MySQL and Postgres, with MySQL sharding built on Vitess. A closed product from PlanetScale.

Vitess. 1 alternatives to PlanetScale, in Go. Compare fit, licence, stars and the latest signed release.

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Tool	Fit	Stars	Licence	Terms	Self-hosted	Language	Latest	Last push
Vitess	Partial	21k	Apache-2.0	Open source	Yes	Go	v24.0.5	2026-10-18

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Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.

The MySQL sharding layer PlanetScale is built on, run by you without the managed dashboard or deploy requests.