# PlanetScale Reviews **Vendor:** PlanetScale **Category:** [Amazon Web Services Channel Partners ](https://www.g2.com/categories/amazon-web-services-channel-partners) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 4 ## About PlanetScale PlanetScale is a fully managed database platform for Vitess/MySQL and Postgres, delivering NVMe-backed performance, massive scale through horizontal sharding, and enterprise-grade reliability. With cutting edge developer-first features like non-blocking schema changes, built-in horizontal sharding, and real-time analytics you can add power to your database layer without having to hire additional database expertise. Increase developer productivity with database branching, a Git-like feature that allows you to test and deploy schema changes to production with zero downtime. Get a database that enables you to monitor, debug, and even boost queries up to 1000x faster without leaving the product or investing in a separate set of tooling. Our solution is the only solution built on battle-tested Vitess, a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL used by GitHub, HubSpot, Slack and more. ## PlanetScale Reviews ### 1. Planetscale is amazing, fast, and always there **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Leo S. | Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 01, 2024 **What do you like best about PlanetScale?** In particular, I enjoyed deploy requests. My team was easily able to collaborate with deploy requests and make changes, much like git **What do you dislike about PlanetScale?** I dislike that it's a bit steep to get started for pricing, but once you're at-scale, it's ok. **Recommendations to others considering PlanetScale:** Choose PScale if you want a new, shiny, easy to administrate, and generally well-rounded RDBMS **What problems is PlanetScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Planetscale is great all around. It is highly available and native to server less environments, with access over http ### 2. Impressive services **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** IRFAN U. | Campus Advisor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 27, 2020 **Describe the project or task PlanetScale helped with:** I have used the PlanetScale with my different projects including the eCommerce Sites and this is price worthy. **What do you like best about PlanetScale?** Customer support is very good and timely I got response from PlanetScale on Time **What do you dislike about PlanetScale?** Everything is great and well manages i didn't find anything intimidating **Recommendations to others considering PlanetScale:** I thing everyone should try the PlanetScale if they have the requirement of a relational database from small database to large enterprice **What problems is PlanetScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its well managed and easy to scale and secure database choice ### 3. This will be a good platform for scaliblity and starting out **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aakash S. | Web Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 05, 2021 **Describe the project or task PlanetScale helped with:** It was a management system i worked on with using this database and really it was good in scaling **What do you like best about PlanetScale?** The best thing about it its open source and the growing community that can be helpful for the starters **What do you dislike about PlanetScale?** Nothing to deslike about it, it was all positive **Recommendations to others considering PlanetScale:** Go start it its really good and worh it **What problems is PlanetScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Good with scaling the data , fast and reliable and easy to use ### 4. Great service **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 27, 2021 **Describe the project or task PlanetScale helped with:** I've used PlanetScale for an internal project as well as eCommerce platforms. **What do you like best about PlanetScale?** The fact it's open source helps a lot in order to start and it's easy to get support. **What do you dislike about PlanetScale?** So far nothing that I can mention, I'll need more time to find something negative. **What problems is PlanetScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** The reason why I decided to go for that option was mainly that it's SaaS and it provides great scalability whenever you need. - [View PlanetScale pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/planetscale/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-24+15%3A41%3A53+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=967e665a-28e4-4d37-b138-303f1752166f&secure%5Btoken%5D=a5991a5cd1641c75a5ecd7bbd328fddd5eabeafec22f6dbd1cb404c9239c0454&format=llm_user) ## PlanetScale Features **Planning** - Needs Assessment - Resource Allocation - Stayed within Budget - Statement of Work - Best Practices **Delivery** - Technical Expertise - Met Deadlines - Meeting Management - Project Updates - Scope Management - Roll-out **Team Quality** - Change Management Skills - Executive Presence - Vertical Expertise - Technology Partnerships ## Top PlanetScale Alternatives - [SHI](https://www.g2.com/products/shi/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (116 reviews) - [InfoObjects](https://www.g2.com/products/infoobjects/reviews) - 4.9/5.0 (60 reviews) - [PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)](https://www.g2.com/products/pricewaterhousecoopers-pwc/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (38 reviews)