An Intellyx Brain Candy Brief
The world’s hunger for increased data scale and speed will never be quenched. Even a small cloud-born startup might generate the terabytes of data and massive transaction volumes once reserved for global enterprises.
PlanetScale is seeking to stay ahead of the massively growing data demands of cloud-native startups and large companies alike, using a novel approach of flexibly hyperscaling and rapidly sharding its MySQL-compatible database across multiple cloud regions and providers.
Drawing on the co-founders’ experience managing data at YouTube, their platform and DBaaS offerings are based on the open source project Vitess, which allows companies like GitHub Slack and Square to break the constraints of data gravity and latency, while retaining web-scale transactional speed, statefulness and resiliency.
PlanetScale orchestrates the delivery of their database on Borg blueprints through Kubernetes clusters that can shard data into multiple masters and replicas in multiple regions of AWS, Azure, GCS and on-premises systems.
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