Draft:PlanetScale
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Submission declined on 5 August 2026 by LittlePuppers (talk). This draft reads like an advertisement. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a platform for promotion or marketing. Drafts that are exclusively promotional may be deleted without notice.
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Comment: Tone is not encyclopedic. Most sources are either not independent, blogs, or routine coverage. LittlePuppers (talk) 04:04, 5 August 2026 (UTC)
PlanetScale
[edit]PlanetScale is a database-as-a-service company founded in 2018, with headquarters in San Francisco, California. It provides hosted MySQL (Vitess) and PostgreSQL databases, designed for large-scale workloads.
History
[edit]Founding and background
[edit]Jiten Vaidya and Sugu Sougoumarane first met at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. In 1993, they worked together at the database company Informix. Sougoumarane later worked as an early engineer at X.com, the online payments company later merged into PayPal, before joining YouTube. Vaidya worked at Google, and joined the YouTube team after Google acquired the company.
In 2010, Sougoumarane co-created Vitess, an open-source system for horizontally scaling MySQL, to address scalability problems with YouTube's database infrastructure. YouTube migrated off of Vitess, and the project was donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Vaidya and Sougoumarane founded PlanetScale to offer a commercial managed Vitess service.
PlanetScale raised a $3 million seed round in 2018, a $22 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz in 2019, and a $30 million Series B led by Insight Partners in 2021.
In July 2021, Sam Lambert, formerly the Vice President of Engineering at GitHub, and having spent the last nine months as PlanetScale’s Chief Product Officer, became CEO, succeeding Vaidya, who moved into a chief strategy role.
In November 2021, the company announced general availability of its enterprise platform alongside a $50 million Series C led by Kleiner Perkins, bringing total funding to $105 million.
Sougoumarane later left the company.
Product expansion
[edit]In 2022, PlanetScale added schema migration rollback, a query observability tool called Insights, and a JavaScript driver for edge platforms. It also launched a query caching product, Boost, which was later discontinued. PlanetScale was named in InfoWorld’s 2022 Technology of the Year Awards.
In October 2023, the company announced it was forking MySQL to add vector support.
Restructuring
[edit]In March 2024, PlanetScale announced layoffs primarily affecting its sales and marketing teams and said it would retire its free "Hobby" tier as part of a push toward profitability. Existing Hobby-tier databases were shut down on April 8, 2024. The company said the move reflected a decision to focus on customers with large-scale or business-critical database needs.
Expansion to Metal and Postgres (2025)
[edit]In March 2025, PlanetScale launched Metal, a class of database instances that use locally attached NVMe storage rather than network-attached cloud volumes.
In 2025, PlanetScale’s managed sharded Postgres service became generally available. PlanetScale had previously been known for its MySQL-based platform built on Vitess before launching its PostgreSQL offering. The release extended PlanetScale's platform to PostgreSQL users amid broader industry growth in PostgreSQL adoption.
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