118M Queries per Second on Neki
The developers of Neki have announced a benchmark achievement of 118 million queries per second on their platform. The test utilized 512 shards to process read-only data, demonstrating significant scalability for their database technology.
Why it matters
This represents a major technical milestone in database performance and distributed systems engineering.
Florent Poinsard , Hirad Pourtahmasbi | September 11, 2026
We released Neki in platform preview yesterday. To celebrate the release, we wanted to test out running 1 million queries per second on Neki. We hit this goal pretty quickly on 5 shards and decided to see how much further we could push it.
This next run ended with 512 shards running 118 million queries per second with 1.22 PiB of data.
The benchmark was very simple. A single-shard point select, one row fetched per-query by primary key. No writes, joins, or cross-shard queries. The workload that each shard receives is isolated, in that there are no single queries that span multiple shards.
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