PlanetScale launches sharded Postgres: 768 servers acting as one, 1PB scale
dhruv2038 · x · 2026-09-11
PlanetScale announced Neki, a sharded Postgres service that makes 768 servers behave like a single database, scaling to a petabyte of data and millions of queries per second.
- The engineering post walks through the path from single-node Postgres to 4 shards and up to 768 servers holding 1PB
- Sharding is described as the only realistic way to scale relational databases beyond a few terabytes
- Known for Vitess on MySQL, PlanetScale now brings production sharding to Postgres
Related event: PlanetScale's Sharded Postgres Neki Hits 118M QPS Across 1PB(3 posts)→
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