Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.

3recommend
3warn against
Dec 23, 2025first mention
Sep 11, 2026latest mention
Nov 25 – Oct 26
Used forsharded postgressharded postgres databasehorizontal postgresql scaling

Why people recommend it

“Vitess/Neki, vector stores, spacetime are all really good things to be happening”

“I'm a big fan of both and has been following them since they were announced last year”

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“This is changing soon with Neki.”

Caveats and dissent

“being closed source is HUGE DEALBREAKER.”

“Neki is not even open source!”

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“no public repo yet which is strange, so time will tell if they will stick to this”

Often compared with

From the makers not counted in the ranking

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

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“being closed source is HUGE DEALBREAKER.”

“Neki doesnt automatically shard”

“How does Neki compare to https://pgdog.dev/?”

“Neki is not even open source!”

“https://neki.dev/ is a much more terse overview of neki”

“Vitess/Neki, vector stores, spacetime are all really good things to be happening”

“Vitess and Neki both let you configure this via the VSchema”

“I'm a big fan of both and has been following them since they were announced last year”

“no public repo yet which is strange, so time will tell if they will stick to this”

“AFAIK that's what Multigres[0] and Neki[1] are trying to solve.”

“This is changing soon with Neki.”

Threads where it came up

Data: neki.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.

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