Last week we introducedDatabase Traffic Control™. TrafficControl lets you attach resource budgets to slices of your Postgres traffic,like keeping your checkout flow running while a runaway analytics query getsshed instead. We have already discussed some scenarios where youshould use Traffic Control,...

Not all traffic is created equal.When a database is overwhelmed, you want the important queries to keep executing, even if that means shedding lower-priority work.This is a much better outcome than the alternative: a total database outage. PlanetScale's Traffic Control makes this feasible at the dat...

Houseplants often die from over-watering, not neglect. It is easy to project human needs onto them: "If I am thirsty, they must be thirsty too." But many indoor plants actually benefit from drying out between waterings. Similarly, your empathy can lead to misinterpreting signals from your database....

We're excited to announce that PlanetScale is participating as a co-design and launch partner for Stripe Projects, a new developer preview from Stripe that centralizes dev tool provisioning and billing in one place. What is Stripe Projects? Stripe Projects is a new way for developers and coding agen...

As part of yesterday's Traffic Control launch, we made enhancements to the Insights query tagging feature for Postgres databases. Insights has supported query tags for some time, but they were previously only attached as metadata on individual notable query logs. With yesterday's release, tags are n...

Today, we released Database Traffic Control™, a feature for mitigating and preventing database overload due to unexpectedly expensive SQL queries. For an overview, read the blog post introducing the feature, and to get started using it, read the reference documentation. This post is a deep dive into...

Postgres has a fundamental gap when it comes to managing query traffic. When an unexpected spike of bad queries, or runaway workload hits your database, Postgres has no good way to fight back. It accepts every query thrown at it until performance degrades or, in the worst case, the server goes down....

The Postgres process-per-connection architecture has an elegant simplicity, but hinders performance when tons of clients need to connect simultaneously. The near-universal choice for solving this problem is PgBouncer.Though there are upcoming systems like Neki which will solve this problem in a more...

I am excited to announce that the Drizzle team is joining PlanetScale to continue their mission of building the best database tools for JavaScript and TypeScript. Drizzle’s ORM has risen to become the default thanks to the team’s obsession with performance and developer experience, two things Planet...

Yesterday on X, SpacetimeDB tweeted that they had done "the world's first video call over a database" and, in their own way, invited anyone else to give it a try. Credit to them - it's a cool idea! In short, they built a frontend that captures audio and video from the browser's media APIs, encodes t...

Cloudflare recently launched Hyperdrive, which provides efficient pooling and fast queries for any MySQL or Postgres database—making optimizing how your application connects to your database incredibly easy. Once you're operating inside the Cloudflare network you get access to the full suite of feat...

Today we're releasing the new PlanetScale MCP server, bringing your database directly into your AI tools. With the Model Context Protocol (MCP), Claude, Cursor, Open Code, and other AI tools can now connect to the PlanetScale API to help you improve and better understand your database. What is the P...

Transactions are fundamental to how SQL databases work.Trillions of transactions execute every single day, across the thousands of applications that rely on SQL databases. What is a database transaction? A transaction is a sequence of actions that we want to perform on a database as a single, atomic...

Ever since Cursor commands were released, we've been usingthem to find ways to shortcut common tasks at PlanetScale. A Cursor command allows you to add slash (/actions) commands directly into Cursor. Each command guides the LLM on completing a common and repeatable workflow for you. Updating our cha...

Postgres 18 is now available on PlanetScale.Starting today, when you create a new database, the default version will be 18.1.You can select a prior version using the dropdown on the database creation page. This combined with our recent launches of $5 single-node databases and $50 Metal databases mak...

DuckDB has gained significant traction for OLAP workloads.It's powerful, flexible, and has a feature-rich SQL dialect, making it perfect to use for analytics alongside OLTP-oriented relational databases. Today, we're excited to announce support for the pg_duckdb extension for Postgres databases on P...

Today we’re making PlanetScale Metal for Postgres available in smaller sizes and at much lower price points, all the way down to the new M-10 for as little as $50 per month.We’ve lowered the floor from 16GiB of RAM with four sizes all the way to 1GiB and paired these with eight storage capacities ra...