# PlanetScale — developer ecosystem report

> The fastest and most reliable MySQL and Postgres database platform.

- GitHub org: `planetscale`
- Category: platform
- Overall score: 55.0 / 100
- Overall rank: #139
- Last refreshed: 2026-08-20

## Pillar scores

| Pillar | Score / 100 | Rank | Weight in overall |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Code & Polish | 56.0 | #305 | ~22% |
| Education | 56.0 | #631 | ~18% |
| AI readiness | 34.0 | #408 | part of Reach |
| Builder experience | 0.0 | #1 | ~12% |
| Community | 37.0 | #404 | ~16% |
| Reach | 79.0 | #36 | ~18% |
| Momentum | 73.0 | #72 | ~14% |

## Links

- GitHub: https://github.com/planetscale
- Website: https://planetscale.com
- Docs: https://docs.planetscale.com

## Public GitHub totals

| Metric | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Repos analyzed | 12 |
| Stars | 6,539 |
| Forks | 763 |
| Open issues | 498 |
| Contributors | — |

## Top repositories

| Repo | Stars | Language | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [database-js](https://github.com/planetscale/database-js) | 1,197 | TypeScript | A Fetch API-compatible PlanetScale database driver |
| [vtprotobuf](https://github.com/planetscale/vtprotobuf) | 1,112 | Go | A Protocol Buffers compiler that generates optimized marshaling & unmarshaling Go code for ProtoBuf APIv2 |
| [cli](https://github.com/planetscale/cli) | 664 | Go | The CLI for PlanetScale Database |
| [database-skills](https://github.com/planetscale/database-skills) | 619 | HTML | Skills for AI agents working with databases |
| [vitess-operator](https://github.com/planetscale/vitess-operator) | 367 | Go | Kubernetes Operator for Vitess |
| [fast_page](https://github.com/planetscale/fast_page) | 332 | Ruby | Blazing fast pagination for ActiveRecord with deferred joins ⚡️ |
| [vitess](https://github.com/planetscale/vitess) | 295 | Go | Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL. This fork does not contain interesting changes - |
| [nextjs-planetscale-starter](https://github.com/planetscale/nextjs-planetscale-starter) | 254 | TypeScript | A Next.js starter app with NextAuth.js (Auth), Prisma (ORM), and PlanetScale (database), ready to be deployed on Netlify |
| [schemadiff](https://github.com/planetscale/schemadiff) | 138 | Go | Declarative schema diffing, normalization, validation and manipulation via command line |
| [nextjs-starter](https://github.com/planetscale/nextjs-starter) | 131 | JavaScript | Next.js starter application using Prisma to connect to PlanetScale |
| [f1-championship-stats](https://github.com/planetscale/f1-championship-stats) | 131 | TypeScript | 🏎 |
| [planetscale-go](https://github.com/planetscale/planetscale-go) | 129 | Go | Go client library to access the PlanetScale API |

## Methodology

Scores are computed from public signals only (GitHub, package registries, docs sites, community platforms). Pillar definitions: https://www.smoower.com/docs.md

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