Neki – sharded Postgres by the team behind Vitess

(planetscale.com)

99 points | by thdxr 4 hours ago

4 comments

  • atombender 0 minutes ago
    This is exciting. The announcement says it will be open source. I really hope that this includes a functionally complete control plane so you realistically self-host.

    I looked Neon recently, and it appears that it's designed as a SaaS product from the outset; while it is technically possible to self-host the individual components of the architecture, it does not look trivial, in large part because the control plane is closed source (and probably extremely specific to Neon's SaaS operations).

  • shoeb00m 3 hours ago
    Looks like there is two ongoing vitess for postgres projects. Hopefully this competition leads to a better postgres ecosystem.

    https://supabase.com/blog/multigres-vitess-for-postgres

    • n2d4 1 hour ago
      There is also pgdog by the author of pgcat: https://pgdog.dev
    • qaq 2 hours ago
      Supabase also working on OrioleDB
      • eatonphil 1 hour ago
        OrioleDB is not about sharding, it's about the storage layer.
        • qaq 1 hour ago
          I did not claim OrioleDB is about sharding. It was just an observation that Supabase is contributing to Postgres ecosystem through multiple projects.
          • selfhosttoday 58 minutes ago
            they likely said that because the context is "vitess for postgres projects" and OrioleDB is not "vitess for postgres"
  • ozgrakkurt 20 minutes ago
    Is anyone working on replacing postgres?

    Feels like it might be very useful since a lot of new technologies came out since spinning disks.

    • erpellan 8 minutes ago
      If you look at the changes that have been made to Postgres, and continue to be made, the answer is yes.

      The Postgres team is working on replacing Postgres. With even better Postgres.

  • hubertzhang 1 hour ago
    Does Neki still need sharding key in query, just like Citus?