Render vs PlanetScale

Render

PlanetScale

Render · 13 features

• Autoscaling — Metric-based autoscale of instances.
• Background Workers — Process queue workers. No HTTP entrypoint.
• Blueprints (render.yaml) — Infrastructure-as-code config for all services.
• Cron Jobs — Scheduled Docker jobs.
• Custom Domains — Free SSL, automatic cert renewal.
• DDoS Protection — Built-in.
• Persistent Disks — Attach persistent SSD to services.
• Preview Environments — Per-PR preview envs with their own DB and services.
• Private Services — Internal services not exposed to the public internet.
• Render Key Value (Redis) — Managed Redis-compatible key-value store.
• Render Postgres — Managed PostgreSQL with automated backups.
• Static Sites — Git-backed static hosting with global CDN, free SSL.
• Web Services — Long-running HTTP services with auto-scale + health checks.

PlanetScale · 12 features

• Backups — Automated daily backups with retention.
• Database Branching — Git-like branches of your DB schema (not data). Create, diff, merge via deploy r…
• Deploy Requests — Schema changes in a feature branch get reviewed + auto-applied to main with zero…
• HIPAA — HIPAA-compliant deployments (Enterprise).
• Metal (NVMe) — Dedicated NVMe local storage. 10x IOPS vs EBS, latency-critical workloads.
• PgBouncer Pooler — Managed PgBouncer for Postgres clusters. Optional dedicated pooler.
• PlanetScale Boost — Query result cache with sub-ms reads.
• Point-in-Time Recovery — Restore cluster to any point within retention window.
• Postgres on PlanetScale — PostgreSQL 15+ with the same branching + deploy-request flow. Launched 2024.
• Query Insights — Per-query performance analytics, slow query tracking, explain plans.
• Read-only Regions — Route reads to the nearest region for lower latency.
• Vitess (MySQL at scale) — Horizontally-sharded MySQL (YouTube-scale) — original PlanetScale offering.