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> Developers want the durability, stability, and scalability of a SQL database but do not want to be constrained by managing a schema

Speak for yourself. I love my schemas.

This article is also 100% fluff, and zero actual information. Obviously I won’t sign up to anything without an ounce of information being provided up front.

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Indeed, you either manage a schema or get managed by it.

This is MySQL. There is a schema. We just make it super easy to manage.

Sounds good, thanks. Any reason these folks chose mysql? Wouldn’t have been my first choice. Edit: appears the middle layer is mysql only.

Haha that's actually a good point. I love to have a reference for how my data is structured.

Per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27203568, there is a a normal MySQL schema. This is about how PlanetScale solves the schema management friction, so as to enable developers working with schemas: safe branching, online schema changes, deployment queues, protected branches, conflict resolution. (I'm an engineer at PlanetScale)

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