Announcing PlanetScale for Postgres

PlanetScale has announced the general availability of PlanetScale for Postgres, a high-performance Postgres hosting platform developed in response to significant customer demand. Initially launched in private preview, this platform has been designed to address common issues faced by users of existing Postgres hosting solutions, such as regular outages, poor performance, and high costs. PlanetScale aims to deliver superior engineering with enhanced performance and reliability by utilizing a proprietary operator and offering features like automatic failovers, query buffering, and PgBouncer for connection pooling. The platform supports Postgres v17 and facilitates seamless online imports and version updates without downtime. Additionally, PlanetScale is developing a new system, Neki, to bring the scaling power of Vitess to Postgres, further expanding its capabilities for companies operating at significant scale.