The world's most advanced serverless MySQL platform
Managed MySQL platform with database branching and horizontal sharding (Vitess).
Branching model for database schema changes means you never run a raw ALTER TABLE in production again — a game changer for team workflows
Zero-downtime schema migrations are solved by default — no more 3am maintenance windows for adding a column
Vitess under the hood means it handles enormous write throughput that would kill a vanilla Postgres setup
The query insights dashboard identifies slow queries with execution plans before they become production incidents
They killed the free tier in 2024 and the cheapest plan is $39/mo — hard to justify for early-stage projects that might not survive
It's MySQL not Postgres, which cuts you off from a huge ecosystem of Postgres-native tools, extensions, and hiring pool
Foreign key constraints aren't supported because of the sharding model — you have to enforce referential integrity in application code
Prisma support works but you lose some ORM features due to the missing FK support, and you'll hit confusing errors if you're not aware
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