PlanetScale documentation

Learn how to use PlanetScale, the serverless database, to power your application.

The PlanetScale workflow

Treat your databases as code. Use the PlanetScale developer workflows for data branching, non-blocking schema changes and more.

Deploy a database and learn the basics of using PlanetScale with an example.

Use live database branches for staging and production environments.

PlanetScale provides secure connection strings for your database branches.

Deploy schema changes without downtime or locking.

Learn how to connect your Rails app to a PlanetScale database.

Deploy a Next.js app with a PlanetScale database to Vercel.

Learn how to use PlanetScale's automatic migrations with Prisma.