Database APIs

PlanetScale API

PlanetScale is a serverless MySQL platform built on Vitess, the horizontal scaling system that powers YouTube and Slack. The PlanetScale API provides comprehensive control over database lifecycle management, branching workflows, backup policies, deployment requests, and organization administration. Developers use it to automate database provisioning in CI/CD pipelines, implement schema change workflows with branch-based development, manage connection credentials programmatically, and monitor query performance through insights endpoints. The API supports multi-region deployments, automatic sharding, and zero-downtime schema migrations. It enables infrastructure-as-code patterns for database management, allowing teams to version database schemas alongside application code and execute deploy requests that safely apply changes to production branches.