It’s about time Oracle moved MySQL to the Linux Foundation. Let the community take it over. Oracle earns kudos in the bargain and releases MySQL into its natural habitat.

Neki - Vitess for Postgres, lives. These are sharded Postgres queries.

we are hiring. if you are very good with distributed systems i want to talk to you!

PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA. https://t.co/1clVoM7M2T

Join my team as a PlanetScale Developer Educator!! This is the perfect role for you if you love: - Creating engaging technical content - Speaking at conferences and events - Working on a tight-knit team where your contributions make a genuine impact (pic related) - Databases

Join us on October 1st at the PlanetScale office for the second ever Vitess Night! Hear from some of the world's largest Vitess users, meet the @vitessio maintainer team, and network with other database enthusiasts. https://t.co/nqJ6RDgXQY

PlanetScale vectors is now GA! We have made vectors a first-class part of MySQL - focusing on robustness to make sure vector support is as solid as every other data type MySQL supports. https://t.co/KdYTQ4dHQR

⚡ Introducing PlanetScale Metal ⚡ - Blazing fast NVMe drives - Unlimited IOPS - Drastic reductions in latency - And best price:performance ratio of any database available in AWS or GCP

Cash App's 2023 stats: Monthly active users: 55 million Payment volume: $53 billion https://t.co/QgBIk7H1QT

I'm stoked to showcase our implementation of vector search for PlanetScale. This is not a HNSW plug-in for MySQL (like pgvector, etc), it's a full fledged index managed by InnoDB that scales into terabytes of vector data.

The PlanetScale vector search and storage open beta is live! You can now store your vector data alongside your application's relational MySQL data — eliminating the need for a separate specialized vector database. https://t.co/rmRvCggJFg

At @Intercom, we’re always innovating and building for our future scale. In what’s one of the most interesting projects I’ve worked on, discover how we’re future proofing our database layer with Vitess and @PlanetScale:

Try an ACID-compliant vector database that has a real on-disk index (SPANN), proper SQL semantics (WHERE, JOIN, subqueries), and both pre- and post-filtering. We’ve taught MySQL to automatically choose the best index for queries like this, whether it’s a vector index or a

VECTORS! We opened up the @PlanetScale vectors private beta yesterday 🤫🤐 dm me for an invite!

📢 We have just released Vitess v20.0.0 GA, along with our Kubernetes Operator v2.13.0 !! Go check out our announcement blog post to learn more:

Ahhh my first video is liveeee! 🙈 I give a demo of how schema changes can lock up your database, how online schema change tools work, and how you can make schema changes without any locking or downtime. https://t.co/uQOw6ZCcIP

KubeCon EU is right around the corner! Our maintainers @fouioui and @ATechGirl will speak on the maintainer track with Kazimieras Aliulis from @VintedEng. Join us on this talk to learn more about Vitess and its adoption at @vinted. We are excited to see you at @KubeCon_!

🎉 Introducing schema recommendations You will now automatically receive recommendations to improve database performance, reduce memory and storage, and improve your schema based on production traffic.

🎉 We have just released v19.0.0-rc1. You can find the release notes on

This blog post from Shopify is a perfect example of a successful migration to Vitess. The team was able to migrate billions of rows to Vitess while removing the burden of schema migrations and capacity issues. "We are very happy with how Vitess has impacted our system."