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What exactly is PlanetScale Postgres? Is it plain managed Postgres ala RDS or something more bespoke like Neon? I know PlanetScale is working on a Vitess-like sharded Postgres (Neki?) but I’m guessing that is not yet running in the cloud?

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It's more like rds but it has far better developer experience than rds with dashboards and better migration. Their unique offering is their metal offering which uses local SSD for superior performance https://planetscale.com/metal

Their dashboards and metrics are really good. Plus the performance is great even on their non-metal offering too. I hope to one day be able to justify the upgrade to it.

Here's their announcement blog post with a bit more info, like their benchmarks:

https://planetscale.com/blog/planetscale-for-postgres

Possibly silly question, and not specific to this DB offering, but why is it a good decision to connect to your DB over the Internet vs keeping it in the same data center as your db clients, given the network-latency based performance hit I believe it causes?

They usually deployed to the same region like any other database not colocated with the clients. With vpc peering there should be no difference.

How is the pricing like? Unfortunately I can't go past 1500GB for storage on their pricing calculator. We have tons of data and I don't feel like scheduling a sales call just to estimate cost

It's real Postgres operated by PlanetScale. You get HA by default, the best performance, query insights, etc.

https://planetscale.com/blog/benchmarking-postgres

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