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Posted by simon_weber 1 day ago

Neki – Sharded Postgres(planetscale.com)
247 points | 132 commentspage 3
phoenix24 1 day ago|
is this open-sourced?
Hasz 1 day ago||
Independent of the product, love the branding design for this page.
xnx 1 day ago||
What does this compete with? Google Cloud SQL?
jbonatakis 1 day ago|
Multigres is the one that comes to mind
kelp 1 day ago||
Once they implement sharding...
jbonatakis 1 day ago||
Yet. But it’s built by the guy who created Vitess and cofounded PlanetScale, so while it doesn’t have sharding implemented at the moment I think it would be foolish to discount it. Plus it’s open source.
kelp 1 day ago|||
The PlanetScale team spent years improving Vitess with lessons learned from many different high scale customer workloads. We continue to invest in and improve Vitess. It's a substantial and growing part of our business.

Vitess today is not the Vitess of 2021. About 70% of the current codebase was written in the last five years, based on lessons we learned running it at scale.

Neki is built for Postgres from the ground up, by the engineers who did that work.

On the Multigres comparison, I'll admit we get a bit salty, mostly because "Vitess for Postgres" invites the comparison. But to date there's no public evidence of a working sharding implementation in Multigres. Their sharding design doc landed this week, and it lists cross-shard query planning and resharding execution as explicitly out of scope.

Neki does sharding today, including online resharding that switches traffic without a maintenance window. It isn't open source, but you can spin up a cluster and try it yourself.

uberman123 1 day ago||||
Sugu? The guy that "barely worked" and "shipped nothing at PlanetScale" according to Planetscale's CEO?
karlmush 1 day ago||
Anyone who has worked with Sugu knows this simply isn’t true. Sam Lambert is lying.
samlambert 1 day ago||
every metric we have proves otherwise
samlambert 1 day ago||||
We literally have the counterfactual of the old product and company before he left. We can fully discount Multigres doing anything.
vaibhav2614 1 day 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.

karuppiah7890 1 day ago||
It's not Open Source Software. So, I'm not even interested. Lol
samlambert 1 day ago|
lol are you an amazon customer?
overfeed 1 day ago|||
lol are you an amazon wannabe?
samlambert 1 day ago||
yes
manlymuppet 1 day ago||
I think this will become the new standard.
rs_rs_rs_rs_rs 1 day ago||
Will this be open source at some point?
samlambert 1 day ago|
undecided right now
ezekg 23 hours ago||
I assume it's already on your radar, but look into fair source: https://fair.io.
_1tan 1 day ago||
Cool, but we're on MySQL - anything similar available? Percona XtraDB?
tedd4u 1 day ago||
That is what the “regular” PlanetScale is all about. It uses the Vitess open source project to do write scaling through shading. It is very powerful and customizable and stable. It was built to run YouTube. Former happy user here.
IceWreck 1 day ago|||
Vitess/Planetscale? Neki is essentially a version of Vitess for Postgres fom the same guys.
kelp 1 day ago|||
Many of the engineers who built Neki also worked on Vitess for years. But it's a ground up new implementation designed to specifically target Postgres.
vt_throwaway 1 day ago|||
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dveeden2 1 day ago|||
TiDB: Distributed and MySQL compatible
MrDrMcCoy 1 day ago||
MariaDB Galera or Vitess.
behole 1 day ago||
Site design is tight. I like it.
samlambert 1 day ago|
thank you!
xyst 1 day ago|
only planet scale? Rookie numbers.

I am looking for interdimensional and interuniversal scale. Which of you trust fund babies has a startup which is working on this problem?

samlambert 1 day ago|
i have been struggling to hire enough physicists
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