The team behind Neki, released in platform preview, ran a benchmark scaling from 5 to 512 shards and reached 118,538,803 sustained queries per second over 16 minutes, using 1.22 PiB of data across 512 Postgres primaries and 480 routers. The test consisted only of single-shard point-select reads by primary key, with no writes, joins, or cross-shard queries, and per-shard throughput actually rose to 231,521 QPS at full scale, well above the initial 200k target.
planetscale.com
· 2026-09-11
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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