PlanetScale has announced a new database-as-a-service that lets developers create a new database in seconds that will grow as they grow, for years, with no limitations on scalability.

Currently in use by Figma and MessageBird, PlanetScale has until now provided a hosted version of Vitess, the open source database that underlies YouTube, Slack, Square and AirBNB.

The new offering moves well beyond these foundations with a developer-first database requiring no knowledge or selection of all of the usual cloud zones, cluster sizes, and other DB-centric minutiae that others require and that increase developer overhead.

With PlanetScale, developers can now create a branch of their database — as they would with code in Git — and develop it discreetly prior to connecting with it in production. This lightweight solution branches only the schema and leaves the data where it resides.

Moreover, database migrations are as easy as pushing code. There are no locks and no hassles for developers.