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Vitess is a battle-hardened open source technology invented at YouTube for deploying, scaling, and managing large clusters of database instances. It now powers some of the largest sites on the Internet. PlanetScale for Vitess brings you fully-managed Vitess clusters with unlimited scalability through horizontal sharding.

Vitess quickstart

Deploy a Vitess database and learn the basics of using PlanetScale.

Architecture

Learn about Vitess architecture.

Branching

Schema changes with branching for safe database development.

Import a database

Import your existing MySQL database to PlanetScale.

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