PlanetScale launches Neki, a sharded Postgres database
Neki by PlanetScale
PlanetScale, known for its MySQL-compatible serverless database, has introduced Neki, a sharded Postgres offering. The landing page invites users to request access or sign up for updates, collecting details like company, current database provider, QPS, data size, and annual database spend. Neki aims to bring horizontal scaling to Postgres workloads.
Sharded Postgres is here
- Atreiden
The top concern I've gotten from dev teams when proposing HA distributed postgres (e.g through RDS Aurora global) is that eventual consistency is not suitable for many workloads.
Does Neki solve for this, and if so how? My understanding of CAP theorem is that this basically requires some compromises around availability, but I'm curious as to what that looks like in practice here.
- erulabs
I love to see this but as a heavy Vitess/MySQL user I do fear the split focus from PlanetScale. Hoping to see continued improvements on the Vitess side as well.
Selfish doubts aside, congrats to Planetscale on the launch!
- vaibhav2614
Pretty exciting to see a sharded Postgres product in the market.
The pitch is compelling. I wonder how many teams will be able to operate sharded database setups in production as a result of this.