ParadeDB published benchmark results showing it improved BM25-ranked text search throughput from 33 QPS to 81.9 QPS using the same StackExchange dataset and benchmarking harness PlanetScale used in its TIN launch post two weeks earlier. The company says the gains came from several optimization passes unrelated to document identifier handling, countering PlanetScale's claim that its speed advantage stemmed from using Postgres' internal ctid fields.
paradedb.com
· 2026-10-01
PlanetScale introduced Neki, a system that adds a router, sidecars, and control plane on top of standard Postgres to enable horizontal scaling across many real Postgres shards. It supports online resharding, shard splitting, high-availability clusters per shard, topology-aware connection pooling, and coordinated schema changes without downtime.
neki.dev
· 2026-09-10
PlanetScale unveiled Neki, a new distributed database built on real Postgres instances running across shards, now available as a platform preview. The company says it drew on eight years of experience running large sharded MySQL clusters to design a system that keeps standard Postgres semantics rather than mimicking compatibility. Neki uses a router that speaks the Postgres wire protocol to direct queries to the appropriate shard.
planetscale.com
· 2026-09-10
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