Tag: planetscale
3 articles
· neon / planetscale
Neon vs PlanetScale — serverless Postgres vs serverless MySQL
Neon has the free tier, the better dev branching, and the Postgres ecosystem. PlanetScale has no cold starts, NVMe speed, and enterprise schema governance. They stopped competing in April 2024 when PlanetScale killed its free tier.
· postgres / database
Best Postgres Host for Early-Stage SaaS (2026)
Neon is the best postgres host for early-stage SaaS: free tier, built-in PgBouncer pooling, and database branching. When Supabase or Railway wins instead.
· database / edge
Edge database tradeoffs: when latency is a lie
Edge databases cut read latency globally, but writes still go to a single primary. When D1, Turso, Neon, or PlanetScale makes sense — and when Postgres wins.