PlanetScale has launched the private preview of its new Postgres hosting platform called PlanetScale for Postgres.
Early users like Convex are migrating their production databases to PlanetScale for Postgres with promising results.
Customer demand following the PlanetScale Metal release drove the decision to support Postgres hosting.
Benchmark tests show PlanetScale for Postgres outperforms major competitors even when they use twice the resources.
The platform offers high availability with automatic failover, query buffering, connection pooling, and zero-downtime version updates.
PlanetScale is building a new sharding system for Postgres inspired by Vitess to enable scaling for large workloads.
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