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PlanetScale's sharded Postgres Neki now available in platform preview
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PlanetScale has made Neki, its sharded Postgres offering, available in platform preview.
Neki gives Postgres teams a path to scale beyond a single machine without leaving Postgres, using real Postgres on each shard and a router that speaks the Postgres wire protocol. It also brings online schema changes, version upgrades, and failovers as built-in workflows, removing the need for maintenance windows. This matters for engineers hitting the ceiling of a single Postgres instance.
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Neki is now available in platform preview, built from lessons learned running large sharded MySQL clusters.
Each shard runs real Postgres with a primary and at least two replicas, and routers speak the Postgres wire protocol so existing drivers and ORMs work.
Neki includes online operations like schema changes, version upgrades, and resharding as built-in workflows, and can run unsharded as well.
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