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The challenges of supporting foreign key constraints

Today, PlanetScale announced support for foreign key constraints. This has been in the making for quite a while — around a year in fact. So, what was the problem? Why did it take so long? It's something that any and every database supports, right? Yes and no. To support foreign key constraints is one thing. To do so while still delivering Online DDL, gated deployments, online imports, and eventually cross shard support, is another. When we launched PlanetScale, we refrained from supporting forei

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The user experience of the Frontend Cloud

The world's best websites load before you've finished this sentence. Those websites can't be static, but serving performance personalization to a global user base has historically been complex.and The is to collect industry-best practices into one easy-to-use workflow, integrating new and better solutions as they come.primary goal of Vercel's Frontend Cloud In this article, we'll look at why speed and personalization matter to your business, and how the Frontend Cloud gives you abundant option

What is HTAP?

At PlanetScale, we speak to developers at all stages of their database journey. The diversity of database products on the market today can make choosing the right one for your needs extremely difficult. The purpose of this blog post is not to reduce the complex database landscape to a simplistic view, but rather to offer a framework for developers to consider as they start to think about building applications for production. In this post, we will explore how to identify data processing methods f

Open LLM Leaderboard: DROP deep dive