October 2021 Summaries

PlanetScale has launched its pricing plans, offering transparent and friendly pricing for developers. The free Developer plan includes 10GB storage, 100 million row reads per month, 10 million row writes per month, and up to 1,000 connections. The Scaler plan is billed per database and costs $29/month, plus additional usage and storage over the included limit, offering features like auto-scaling, automated backups, and ticket-based support. An Enterprise plan with resource-based pricing has also been added, featuring enterprise features like Single Sign-On and unlimited database branches. PlanetScale aims to provide an affordable paid plan for developers and startups while allowing them to try out the platform at no cost with its free Developer plan.

Connect your PlanetScale databases and their branches to manage and run queries from JetBrains DataGrip in a few small steps, using a popular cross-platform IDE for databases that works nicely with PlanetScale databases. Database Branches allow you to branch your database schemas like you branch your code, enabling experimentation in an isolated environment. With non-blocking schema changes, users can update database tables without locking or causing downtime for production databases. To connect to a PlanetScale database using DataGrip, create a new data source with the connection information provided by PlanetScale and fill in the necessary details. When creating a table, ensure it's done in a development branch, not a production branch, as PlanetScale does not allow certain statements on production branches. With DataGrip, you can manage database changes easily, experiment with schemas in an isolated environment, and deploy your changes to your production database once ready. You can create a free database to connect to DataGrip and try out PlanetScale today.