Neki by PlanetScale
PlanetScale has launched Neki, a sharded PostgreSQL solution designed to scale databases horizontally to handle massive throughput and data volumes. The platform manages routing, sidecars, and control planes to allow seamless scaling without downtime.
Why it matters
Database scalability is a major bottleneck for high-growth startups; managed sharding solutions significantly reduce engineering overhead.
Neki is sharded Postgres by PlanetScale. Every shard is real Postgres. Neki adds the router, sidecars, and control plane to scale it past a single machine, to hundreds of millions of QPS and petabytes of data, without downtime.
Neki, sharded Postgres by PlanetScale, is now available in platform preview.
Scale Postgres past the limits of a single machine to hundreds of millions of QPS and petabytes of data.
Split hot shards as workloads grow. Neki creates new target shards, catches them up with replication, and moves traffic through topology changes.
Move data to a new shard layout while the database stays online. Rebalance capacity without application rewrites or maintenance windows.
Each shard is real Postgres. Neki adds the router, sidecars, and control plane needed to scale Postgres horizontally.
Let the platform track health, promote replicas, and update routing. Applications keep using the same Postgres endpoint.
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