Build or buy: Self-run Vitess vs Managed Vitess with PlanetScale

PlanetScale is a managed service for running Vitess, an open-source database clustering system designed to scale MySQL deployments. While companies can run Vitess on their own, managing it requires significant resources and expertise. PlanetScale offers additional features such as support from in-house Vitess experts, a dashboard for branching, deploy requests, and more, the PlanetScale Global Network, compliance and security measures, and query monitoring and insights. The cost of using PlanetScale is often offset by the time and resources saved on managing Vitess independently.