{"slug": "neki", "name": "Neki", "category": "databases", "category_name": "Databases", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 8, "warners": 3, "score": -0.203, "rising": 0.35, "first": "2025-12-23", "latest": "2026-09-11", "why": "I'm a big fan of both and has been following them since they were announced last year", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 3, "compare": 1, "warn": 3}, "spark": [0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "I'm a big fan of both and has been following them since they were announced last year", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "neki.dev", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://neki.dev", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Neki"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 793062354, "item_id": 49566397, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49566397", "by": "echohack5", "date": "2026-09-04", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Vitess/Neki, vector stores, spacetime are all really good things to be happening", "excerpt": "As someone who has been using alot of spacetime for side projects (like https://heat.echohack.app), I am continually impressed with the speed at which it operates. I think there's alot of interesting things happening in the database space. Vitess/Neki, vector stores, spacetime are all really good things to be happening. I think it's a shame that database developers seem to have a drama filled timeline out there. It's", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ok, but does it scale?"}, {"id": 782945201, "item_id": 48934075, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48934075", "by": "hasyimibhar", "date": "2026-07-16", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'm a big fan of both and has been following them since they were announced last year", "excerpt": "I'm surprised no one has mentioned Multigres yet, they are the competitor of Neki. I'm a big fan of both and has been following them since they were announced last year. I think this blog post is the first time they are talking about the internals of Neki. In contrast, Multigres is being built in public since day 1, you can see their high-level architecture here [1], though I'm still waiting for more details on their", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Making 768 servers look like 1"}, {"id": 741899568, "item_id": 46368723, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46368723", "by": "bddicken", "date": "2025-12-23", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "This is changing soon with Neki.", "excerpt": "This is changing soon with Neki. https://www.neki.dev", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 794665648, "item_id": 49666603, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49666603", "by": "weekendcode", "date": "2026-09-11", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "being closed source is HUGE DEALBREAKER.", "excerpt": "Its great to see scale and progress, but being closed source is HUGE DEALBREAKER. Clickhouse is also on the right track of building some amazing opensource integrations with postgres, they have superior*[1] managed postgres looks like from their recent blog. I hope they do some OSS sharded postgres solution. [1] - https://clickhouse.com/blog/benchmarking-nvme-managed-postgres-planetscale-vs-clickhouse", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "118M Queries per Second on Neki"}, {"id": 794369520, "item_id": 49648095, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49648095", "by": "xyzzy_plugh", "date": "2026-09-10", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Neki is not even open source!", "excerpt": "I love how the Planetscale CEO has been shitting on multigres[0], Supabase's equivalent to Neki, and gloating about how superior Neki is, and yet Neki is not even open source! Sam, it feels like you're just playing games. It's hard to take anything you say or do seriously. Are you going to OSS this thing? Or have you decided to backpedal? Congrats on the checks notes closed launch, I guess? 0: https://github.com/mult", "context": "", "use_case": "sharded Postgres", "switched_from": "", "story": "Neki \u2013 Sharded Postgres"}, {"id": 781205856, "item_id": 48825366, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48825366", "by": "khurs", "date": "2026-07-07", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "no public repo yet which is strange, so time will tell if they will stick to this", "excerpt": "Looked it up, says 'Will be released as an open source project' but announcement was in July 2025 and no public repo yet which is strange, so time will tell if they will stick to this. https://planetscale.com/blog/planetscale-for-postgres#vitess-for-postgres https://planetscale.com/neki ... Supabase one is open from start: https://github.com/multigres/multigres https://multigres.com/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Why we built yet another Postgres connection pooler"}]}], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["sharded postgres", "sharded postgres database", "horizontal postgresql scaling"], "compared": [{"slug": "multigres", "name": "Multigres", "co": 4, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "vitess", "name": "Vitess", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "pgdog", "name": "PgDog", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [{"id": 794609696, "item_id": 49663106, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49663106", "by": "samlambert", "date": "2026-09-11", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "", "excerpt": "Not being rude, I just do not like the work of my company being written off and under appreciated with comments like yours. Saying it's an open source alternative when it is clearly not is incredibly disingenuous. Anyone can start a project and say it's an alternative until it achieves the same results is not an alternative. They have raised 10x more venture funding than my company, and we have out executed them with", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "118M Queries per Second on Neki"}], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49645686", "title": "Neki \u2013 Sharded Postgres", "mentions": 4}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49660555", "title": "118M Queries per Second on Neki", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48930075", "title": "Making 768 servers look like 1", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563772", "title": "Ok, but does it scale?", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48819308", "title": "Why we built yet another Postgres connection pooler", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47966625", "title": "Does Postgres Scale?", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {"warn": 1, "recommend": 1, "neutral": 1}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 1, "warn": 2, "compare": 1}, "2026-10": {}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "quotes": [{"id": 794665648, "item_id": 49666603, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49666603", "by": "weekendcode", "date": "2026-09-11", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "being closed source is HUGE DEALBREAKER.", "excerpt": "Its great to see scale and progress, but being closed source is HUGE DEALBREAKER. Clickhouse is also on the right track of building some amazing opensource integrations with postgres, they have superior*[1] managed postgres looks like from their recent blog. I hope they do some OSS sharded postgres solution. [1] - https://clickhouse.com/blog/benchmarking-nvme-managed-postgres-planetscale-vs-clickhouse", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "118M Queries per Second on Neki"}, {"id": 794602096, "item_id": 49662631, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662631", "by": "imjosh-dev", "date": "2026-09-11", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Neki doesnt automatically shard", "excerpt": "Completely up to the user. Neki doesnt automatically shard, its all controlled by the data topology (https://planetscale.com/blog/what-is-a-data-topology).", "context": "", "use_case": "sharded Postgres", "switched_from": "", "story": "Neki \u2013 Sharded Postgres"}, {"id": 794374672, "item_id": 49648417, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49648417", "by": "devy", "date": "2026-09-10", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "How does Neki compare to https://pgdog.dev/?", "excerpt": "How does Neki compare to https://pgdog.dev/?", "context": "", "use_case": "Sharded Postgres", "switched_from": "", "story": "Neki \u2013 Sharded Postgres"}, {"id": 794369520, "item_id": 49648095, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49648095", "by": "xyzzy_plugh", "date": "2026-09-10", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Neki is not even open source!", "excerpt": "I love how the Planetscale CEO has been shitting on multigres[0], Supabase's equivalent to Neki, and gloating about how superior Neki is, and yet Neki is not even open source! Sam, it feels like you're just playing games. It's hard to take anything you say or do seriously. Are you going to OSS this thing? Or have you decided to backpedal? Congrats on the checks notes closed launch, I guess? 0: https://github.com/mult", "context": "", "use_case": "sharded Postgres", "switched_from": "", "story": "Neki \u2013 Sharded Postgres"}, {"id": 794347296, "item_id": 49646706, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49646706", "by": "imjosh-dev", "date": "2026-09-10", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "https://neki.dev/ is a much more terse overview of neki", "excerpt": "https://neki.dev/ is a much more terse overview of neki", "context": "", "use_case": "Sharded Postgres database", "switched_from": "", "story": "Neki \u2013 Sharded Postgres"}, {"id": 793062354, "item_id": 49566397, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49566397", "by": "echohack5", "date": "2026-09-04", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Vitess/Neki, vector stores, spacetime are all really good things to be happening", "excerpt": "As someone who has been using alot of spacetime for side projects (like https://heat.echohack.app), I am continually impressed with the speed at which it operates. I think there's alot of interesting things happening in the database space. Vitess/Neki, vector stores, spacetime are all really good things to be happening. I think it's a shame that database developers seem to have a drama filled timeline out there. It's", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ok, but does it scale?"}, {"id": 782968929, "item_id": 48935558, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935558", "by": "bddicken", "date": "2026-07-16", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Vitess and Neki both let you configure this via the VSchema", "excerpt": "A lot of what you're referring to is dictated by the sharding strategy. Vitess and Neki both let you configure this via the VSchema / data topology (That's what I'm getting at here) https://planetscale.com/blog/making-768-servers-look-like-1#how-does-it-know This decision matters a ton. I drilled into this specific point on sharding in one of my articles from awhile back: https://planetscale.com/blog/database-shardin", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Making 768 servers look like 1"}, {"id": 782945201, "item_id": 48934075, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48934075", "by": "hasyimibhar", "date": "2026-07-16", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'm a big fan of both and has been following them since they were announced last year", "excerpt": "I'm surprised no one has mentioned Multigres yet, they are the competitor of Neki. I'm a big fan of both and has been following them since they were announced last year. I think this blog post is the first time they are talking about the internals of Neki. In contrast, Multigres is being built in public since day 1, you can see their high-level architecture here [1], though I'm still waiting for more details on their", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Making 768 servers look like 1"}, {"id": 781205856, "item_id": 48825366, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48825366", "by": "khurs", "date": "2026-07-07", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "no public repo yet which is strange, so time will tell if they will stick to this", "excerpt": "Looked it up, says 'Will be released as an open source project' but announcement was in July 2025 and no public repo yet which is strange, so time will tell if they will stick to this. https://planetscale.com/blog/planetscale-for-postgres#vitess-for-postgres https://planetscale.com/neki ... Supabase one is open from start: https://github.com/multigres/multigres https://multigres.com/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Why we built yet another Postgres connection pooler"}, {"id": 767555729, "item_id": 47972233, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972233", "by": "hasyimibhar", "date": "2026-05-01", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "AFAIK that's what Multigres[0] and Neki[1] are trying to solve.", "excerpt": "AFAIK that's what Multigres[0] and Neki[1] are trying to solve. [0] https://multigres.com/ [1] https://neki.dev/", "context": "", "use_case": "Horizontal PostgreSQL scaling", "switched_from": "", "story": "Does Postgres Scale?"}, {"id": 741899568, "item_id": 46368723, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46368723", "by": "bddicken", "date": "2025-12-23", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "This is changing soon with Neki.", "excerpt": "This is changing soon with Neki. https://www.neki.dev", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18"}]}