Neki – Sharded Postgres

Posted by simon_weber 18 hours ago

Neki – Sharded Postgres(planetscale.com)

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kaycebasques 17 hours ago|

I am on a 12 Muni right now that is plastered with a Neki ad, and I looked up neki.dev literally 10 mins ago to see what this product is about. Did they time the release of this bus ad with the launch date?

kelp 17 hours ago|

Bus ads have been running for a little while now. A few billboards around too.

ripe 17 hours ago||

Neki is a sharded Postgres implementation. It introduces one level of indirection between the application and the Postgres shards.

Found this from neki.dev.

fastball 16 hours ago|

You can also find that in first section of the linked post (after the intro)...

devy 15 hours ago||

How does Neki compare to https://pgdog.dev/?

samlambert 15 hours ago|

it works and does sharding

levkk 13 hours ago||

Same here! Except:

- PgDog is open source

- It runs anywhere, not just your cloud

- It's built for Postgres, not a MySQL pivot

samlambert 10 hours ago||

what does a mysql pivot mean? like literally what do you think we have done here technically that could be considered a mysql pivot?

Tepix 4 hours ago||

So apparently the neki router uses many parts of Postgres. But is it open source itself?

Apparently not.

aamederen 17 hours ago||

The first question came to my mind was, how would this compare against Citus.

imjosh-dev 16 hours ago|

I actually wrote a bit about this on our blog! https://planetscale.com/blog/the-history-of-postgres-shardin...

kamikazechaser 3 hours ago||

Not even freeware/shareware?

tjohnell 18 hours ago||

A C2 level diagram included in the blog post would be helpful. What are the drawbacks to using Neki aside from the obvious (new software has bugs)?

arrowleaf 16 hours ago|

The first thing I want to know when looking at a distributed system is how consistency is handled, ctrl+f for "consis" on both the blog post and neki.dev has zero hits. So I can only assume it will have eventual consistency with a considerable replica lag for real-time systems.

wewewedxfgdf 13 hours ago||

Nice work by the marketing department getting two posts on HN front page at same time.

gk1 8 hours ago|

It doesn’t take a marketing person to submit a link.

vaibhav2614 18 hours ago||

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.

vira28 17 hours ago|

Obviously welcome more tools for Postgres and sharding but it’s a tough hill to climb against the hyper clouds. Best wishes to the team.

samlambert 16 hours ago||

The largest database to ever run on Aurora MySQL runs on PlanetScale, and the largest database to ever run on Aurora limitless also runs on PlanetScale.

OrangeDelonge 6 hours ago||

What do you mean? Your comment reads like PlanetScale uses Aurora under the hood, you mean PlanetScale can handle bigger DB’s than Aurora?

theanirudh 6 hours ago||

He means that they moved from AWS to Planetscale and yes it handles much larger DBs.

tedd4u 14 hours ago||

We went as far as we could on GCP before PlanetScale. Spanner is amazing but also amazingly expensive. And CloudSQL, also amazing as long as you don’t need write scaling. PlanetScale (Vitess+MySQL plus their branching / deployment and monitoring tools) is just not a combination offered on GCP. And while I didn’t use Aurora, from talking to and exploring AWS it doesn’t really have this combination either.

samlambert 10 hours ago||

It makes me so happy to hear you had a good experience. Thank you for being a customer.

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