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What is the purpose of PlanetScale's "Insights" (query performance monitoring) feature?
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What is the purpose of PlanetScale's "Insights" (query performance monitoring) feature?
What is PlanetScale?
What kind of applications does PlanetScale's architecture make LESS well-suited for, compared to a simpler single-instance database?
Why did PlanetScale, for a period, not support traditional foreign key constraints in the way a standard single-instance MySQL database does?
What is the purpose of PlanetScale's "safe migrations" / schema change review feature?
What is the significance of PlanetScale being built on a CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) graduated project (Vitess) rather than a proprietary, closed database engine?
What is a PlanetScale "deploy request," and what does it correspond to in a typical software workflow?
What is "database branching" in PlanetScale, and what workflow does it enable?
What does "non-blocking schema changes" mean in the context of PlanetScale/Vitess, and why does it matter?
What is the purpose of a "vindex" in Vitess's sharding model?
What is Vitess, and what is its historical origin?
What does a PlanetScale "keyspace" correspond to, in Vitess terminology?