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Design considerations for implementing a database throttler with a comparison of singular vs distributed throttler deployments. →
By Ben Dicken |
B-trees are used by many modern DBMSs. Learn how they work, how databases use them, and how your choice of primary key can affect index performance. →
By Shlomi Noach |
PlanetScale now supports instant DDL. Where eligible, you can run deploy requests that complete near-instantly. →
By Ben Dicken |
For big databases, IOPS and throughput can become a bottleneck in database performance. Learn how sharding helps scale out IOPS and throughput beyond the limitations of a single server. →
By Matt Lord |
Data migrations are a critical part of the database lifecycle, and are sometimes necessary for version upgrades, sharding, or moving to a new platform. In many cases, migrations are painful and error-prone. In this article, we walk through how migrations are performed at PlanetScale, and offer advice on how to improve the migration experience. →
By Ben Dicken |
Sharding a database comes with many benefits: Scalability, failure isolation, write throughput, and more. However, one of the lesser-known benefits comes from improved backups and restore performance. →
By Matt Lord |
Learn the basics of Change Data Capture (CDC) and how to leverage Vitess VStream API to build data pipelines. →
By Shlomi Noach |
Learn about the options for running non-blocking schema changes natively to MySQL, using Vitess, or other tools →
By Andres Taylor |
The Vitess query planner takes multiple passes over a query plan to optimize it as much as possible before execution. A recent tricky bug report led to an improvement in how the optimizer functions. →
By Ben Dicken |
Large databases often have a small number of very large tables that makes scaling difficult. How can you scale with these while keeping your database performant? This article covers three techniques. →
By Holly Guevara |
Learn about the different types of sharding: directory-based, range-based, and hash-based plus some of the pros and cons of each. →
By Holly Guevara |
PlanetScale and Vitess have a close relationship. Learn what it looks like to run Vitess on your own vs using PlanetScale. We cover cost, time to implement, management, and more. →
By Harshit Gangal, Deepthi Sigireddi |
How we implemented a consistent lookup Vindex in Vitess to ensure data consistency without using 2PC →
By Ben Dicken |
The adaptive hash index helps to improve performance of the already-fast B-tree lookups →
By Matt Robenolt, Iheanyi Ekechukwu |
With global replica credentials, you can now automatically route reads to the closest replica. →
By Arvind Murty |
My experience working as an intern in the Vitess query serving team for PlanetScale. →
By Mike Coutermarsh |
Learn how PlanetScale uses GitHub Actions and PlanetScale to automate schema changes on our own application. →
By Ben Dicken |
MySQL has built-in functionality for collecting statistics on and profiling your MySQL queries. Learn how to leverage these features to identify problems. →
By Brian Morrison II |
Understand the different versions of UUIDs and why using them as a primary key in MySQL can hurt database performance. →
By Sam Lambert |
PlanetScale is committed to providing a reliable and sustainable platform for our customers, not just in the short-term, but forever. For this reason, we are prioritizing profitability. →