PlanetScale launches Neki, a sharded Postgres for workloads outgrowing single machines
threepointone · x · 2026-09-10
PlanetScale announced Neki, its sharded Postgres offering, now available in platform preview.
- Built on eight years of running some of the world's largest sharded MySQL clusters, serving millions of queries per second for tier-0 workloads
- Targets the single-machine ceiling of Postgres: unvacuumable huge tables, multi-hour backups, connection limits, transaction wraparound
- Guiding principle is sticking to real Postgres rather than app-level sharding or "Postgres-compatible" distributed databases that hide shard keys and drop extensions
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