Case Study: Community scales messaging to millions of users with PlanetScale

Community chose PlanetScale for flexibility, scale, and speed

Community, a platform connecting brands and celebrities with their audiences via text messaging, faced the challenge of scaling its database to handle billions of messages. They outgrew their initial Apache Cassandra NoSQL database and needed a more flexible, scalable, and fully-hosted relational solution. This led them to migrate to the PlanetScale database service.

By implementing PlanetScale, the engineering team gained the ability to easily change schemas, perform table joins, and shard their database indefinitely without managing the infrastructure. The solution provided immediate benefits, including a faster development velocity and explicit control over their sharding strategy. PlanetScale enabled the team to focus on feature development instead of database management, effortlessly scaling their platform to support millions of users.

Community

Karl Matthias

Director of Architecture and Platform Engineering