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# PlanetScale documentation

> PlanetScale is a relational database platform that brings you scale, performance, and reliability — without sacrificing developer experience.

We offer both [Vitess](/docs/vitess) and [PostgreSQL](/docs/postgres) clusters, powered by locally-attached NVMe drives that deliver unlimited IOPS and ultra-low latency.

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    PlanetScale for Vitess offers fully-managed Vitess clusters with unlimited scalability. Features include sharding, branching, deploy requests, query insights, and more.

    <a href="/docs/vitess">View the Vitess docs</a>
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  <Card title="Postgres documentation" icon="database" href="/docs/postgres">
    PlanetScale Postgres is a fully-managed PostgreSQL-compatible database. Features include high availability, query insights, branching, and more.

    <a href="/docs/postgres">View the Postgres docs</a>
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All clusters are deployed with one primary and a minimum of 2 replicas across 3 availability zones for high availability. Automated failovers, managed version upgrades, and a team of database experts holding the pager means you can spend your time shipping instead of worrying about your database.

For large-scale applications that are hitting the limits of vertical scale, PlanetScale's [Vitess](https://planetscale.com/vitess) is a great option. You get the power of horizontal sharding, built-in connection pooling, and non-blocking schema changes so you'll never have to worry about outgrowing your database solution.

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## PlanetScale plans

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    What's the difference between Scaler Pro and Enterprise?

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    <a href="/docs/planetscale-plans">Learn more</a>
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  <Card title="Deployment options" icon="server" href="/docs/plans/deployment-options">
    PlanetScale offers multi-tenant and single-tenant deployment options.

    <a href="/docs/plans/deployment-options">Learn more</a>
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  <Card title="Bring your own cloud" icon="cloud" href="/docs/vitess/managed">
    Learn about our Enterprise offering — PlanetScale Managed.

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    <a href="/docs/vitess/managed">Learn more</a>
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## Need help?

Get help from [the PlanetScale Support team](https://support.planetscale.com/), or join our [GitHub discussion board](https://github.com/planetscale/discussion/discussions) to see how others are using PlanetScale.


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