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...