PlanetScale is basically Vitess on MySQL in the cloud, with a cloud user interface, plus a command line interface (CLI) that you can run on your own machine. The CLI can control almost everything ...

The MySQL Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and Twitter engineering teams have joined forces to create their own version of MySQL, WebScaleSQL for their monster-sized databases.

And that’s all there is to creating a table and inserting data into it on MySQL. Once you have all the data necessary, your database is ready for usage by your web-based tool.