PlanetScale launched a private preview of its managed Postgres hosting platform.
Early access to PlanetScale for Postgres is available via a waitlist.
Benchmark tests show it outperforms major Postgres providers even with twice the resources.
Features include high availability with automatic failover, query buffering, and connection pooling.
It supports Postgres v17, online imports from versions above v13, and zero-downtime version updates.
Local NVMe SSD drives improve the performance-to-cost ratio for relational databases.
A new sharding system for Postgres is being built from first principles, inspired by Vitess.
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