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Comparison · Infra & APIs
PlanetScale vs ToolJet
A side-by-side editorial comparison of PlanetScale and ToolJet — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
PlanetScale vs ToolJet: at a glance
What is PlanetScale?
PlanetScale is building out Postgres while making every control reachable without the dashboard.
The Postgres line carries the new capability: vectorscale extension support, storage configurable at database creation, out-of-memory alerts by both email and webhook, a customisable log line prefix, a Discovery Tool for evaluating existing databases, and updated pricing for private connection traffic. Database Traffic Control introduced resource budgets and has since gained warning thresholds and CLI management. The surface work is constant — API endpoints for backup policies, maintenance schedules, schema recommendations, deploy-request storage checks and invoice status, a Terraform provider at v1, and an Insights-only MCP server.
What is ToolJet?
An LTS patch train quietly absorbing security fixes and multi-model AI switching
ToolJet's 3.20.x LTS line ships near-daily patch tags, most carrying a single merged PR. The substantive items in the current window are LLM switching with query transformation in the AI layer, two-factor authentication, a fix for cross-tenant vulnerabilities in ToolJet DB, and CSV import for ToolJet DB. Everything else is single-fix housekeeping - event handler ordering, layout deduplication, signup guard changes.
PlanetScale vs ToolJet: editorial side-by-side
PlanetScale
0.0INFRA · APISDEVOPS
PlanetScale is building out Postgres while making every control reachable without the dashboard.
◆ Current state
The Postgres line carries the new capability: vectorscale extension support, storage configurable at database creation, out-of-memory alerts by both email and webhook, a customisable log line prefix, a Discovery Tool for evaluating existing databases, and updated pricing for private connection traffic. Database Traffic Control introduced resource budgets and has since gained warning thresholds and CLI management. The surface work is constant — API endpoints for backup policies, maintenance schedules, schema recommendations, deploy-request storage checks and invoice status, a Terraform provider at v1, and an Insights-only MCP server.
◆ Where it's heading
PlanetScale is doing two things at once: closing the gap between its Postgres offering and its MySQL heritage, and making every operation scriptable. The API, Terraform and MCP work share a single goal — nothing should require the dashboard — and the schema-recommendations feature landing simultaneously as a REST endpoint and an MCP tool is the clearest statement of it. Traffic Control is the exception, launched as a named product surface and then immediately given the same CLI and threshold treatment.
◆ Prediction
Expect the remaining Postgres parity items and more MCP tools mirroring existing REST endpoints, following the schema-recommendations pattern where both arrived together.
ToolJet
5.0INFRA · APIS
An LTS patch train quietly absorbing security fixes and multi-model AI switching
◆ Current state
ToolJet's 3.20.x LTS line ships near-daily patch tags, most carrying a single merged PR. The substantive items in the current window are LLM switching with query transformation in the AI layer, two-factor authentication, a fix for cross-tenant vulnerabilities in ToolJet DB, and CSV import for ToolJet DB. Everything else is single-fix housekeeping - event handler ordering, layout deduplication, signup guard changes.
◆ Where it's heading
The LTS branch is doing two jobs at once. It is the stability line, which explains the volume of one-PR tags, but real capability is still landing on it - AI model switching and CSV import are not backports of cosmetic fixes. The security items are the more telling signal: two-factor authentication and a cross-tenant isolation fix arriving in the same tag point at a product being hardened for multi-tenant deployments where one customer's data reaching another is the failure that matters.
◆ Prediction
Expect the 3.20.x LTS cadence to continue at roughly a tag a day with further AI-layer work following the LLM switching groundwork. The entries do not show what is happening on the non-LTS branch, so how much of this originates there is not visible here.
Alternatives to PlanetScale and ToolJet
Other Infra & APIs products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either PlanetScale or ToolJet.
Pressable
A fortnight of bulk operations and a DDEV integration, aimed squarely at agencies
Heroku
Runtime bumps most weeks, but a new stack, a stack deprecation and an AI model cull underneath
Jenkins
Jenkins is shedding weight and hardening deserialization on its weekly train
Honeycomb
Honeycomb is turning Canvas from an investigation view into the console where the work actually happens
Cohere
Cohere is shipping a model a month and retiring the old ones just as briskly.
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Recent activity from PlanetScale and ToolJet
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 18h agoToolJetSubmodule update
- 1d agoToolJetTwo-factor auth, cross-tenant ToolJet DB fixes and CSV import
- 1d agoToolJetAI adds LLM switching and query transformation
- 2d agoToolJetPreserve event handler ordering in the builder
- 5d agoToolJetSignup and AI onboarding API guard changes
- 5d agoToolJetCap signup and AI-onboarding email length
- 3mo agoPlanetScaleQuery Insights negated search terms
- 3mo agoPlanetScaleNew GCP region: Eemshaven, Netherlands
- 3mo agoPlanetScaleIntroducing Database Traffic Control™: resource budgets for your Postgres query traffic.Learn more ⚡
- 3mo agoPlanetScaleConfigure Postgres storage at database creation
- 3mo agoPlanetScaleSign-up page fragment (no release content)
- 4mo agoPlanetScaleInsights-only MCP server
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between PlanetScale and ToolJet?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. ToolJet is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is PlanetScale better than ToolJet?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. ToolJet is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Infra & APIs products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to PlanetScale?
Top PlanetScale alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "PlanetScale alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/planetscale for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to ToolJet?
Top ToolJet alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "ToolJet alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/tooljet for the full list with editorial commentary on each.