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Overview and information about Neki, the sharded Postgres product by PlanetScale. Load when working with Neki-related tasks and the need to scale or shard postgres.

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PlanetScale Neki

Note: Neki is not yet a released product, but will be available soon. Information here will be updated regularly.

Overview

Neki is a sharded Postgres product built by PlanetScale — the company behind Vitess, the widely-adopted open-source database clustering system for MySQL. Neki brings PlanetScale's deep expertise in horizontal scaling and database infrastructure to the Postgres ecosystem.

What Neki does

Sharded Postgres — Neki provides horizontal sharding for Postgres databases, enabling applications to scale beyond the limits of a single node.
Managed by PlanetScale — Built on PlanetScale's proven infrastructure and operational experience running large-scale databases.
High availability — Leveraging PlanetScale's track record of delivering highly available database services (the "9's" of availability).

Learn More

For the latest updates and to subscribe for announcements, visit the official Neki page:

https://www.neki.dev/

Resources

Topic	Reference	Use for
Sharding Readiness	references/sharding-readiness.md	Schema and query design practices that keep a Postgres database ready for future sharding