With necessity being the mother of invention, PlanetScale co-founder Jiten Vaidya needed a way to scale the MySQL databases that were running many of YouTube's operational systems. They developed a ...

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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PlanetScale, the serverless database powered by Vitess and MySQL, today announced general availability of its enterprise platform, announced as a private beta in May ...

It seems like everyone in the database business is thinking about how to capitalize on the growth of AI by adding support for vectors to their products. That, after all, remains to be the easiest way ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PlanetScale, the creator of Vitess, today announced that it has secured $30 million in Series B funding led by Insight Partners with participation from a16z and ...

Vitess-powered PlanetScale scales to hold as much data as you need, but is currently limited to a single cluster. PlanetScale is a MySQL-compatible, serverless database platform powered by Vitess, ...

When the former CTOs of YouTube, Facebook and Dropbox seed fund a database startup, you know there’s something special going on under the hood. Jiten Vaidya and Sugu Sougoumarane saved YouTube from a ...

PlanetScale has announced the general availability of PlanetScale CNDb, a fully managed cloud-native database designed on Vitess, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)-hosted open source project ...

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Since May, the database management startup PlanetScale has poached at least 10 GitHub employees, including four this month. PlanetScale has raised a total of $25 million at a $80 million valuation, ...