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Benchmarking Postgres
By Benjamin Dicken | July 1, 2025
Today we launched PlanetScale for Postgres. For the past several months, we've been laser focused on building the best Postgres experience on the planet, performance included.
To ensure we met our high standard for database performance, we needed a way to measure and compare other options with a standardized, repeatable, and fair methodology. We built an internal tool, "Telescope", to be our go-to tool for creating, running, and assessing benchmarks.
We have used this as an internal tool to give our engineers quick feedback on the evolution of our product's performance as we built and tuned it. We decided to share our findings with the world, and give others the tools to reproduce them.
If you'd like to skip straight to the benchmark results, they are here:
And here is a quick overview of how PlanetScale performs compared to other Postgres vendors:
In every aspect of our business we aim for excellence and continual improvement. We encourage you to reach out at [email protected] if you see any mistakes in our methodology or cost calculations.
The way benchmarking is used is often deceptive. This applies to all technologies, not just databases.
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