PlanetScale·42wAnnouncing Neki — PlanetScale
PlanetScale announces Neki, a new sharded Postgres solution built from first principles by the team behind Vitess. Unlike Vitess which leverages MySQL, Neki is designed specifically for Postgres workloads and will be released as open source when ready. The project aims to bring the same extreme scale capabilities that Vitess provides for MySQL to the Postgres ecosystem.
PlanetScale·36wPlanetScale for Postgres is now GA — PlanetScale
PlanetScale has officially launched their Postgres database service, moving from private preview to general availability. The managed service combines PlanetScale's proven infrastructure with Postgres, targeting companies that need scalable database solutions. Several companies including Convex, Supermemory, and Layers have already migrated to the platform. PlanetScale is also developing Neki, a Postgres sharding solution built from first principles that will eventually be open-sourced for demanding workloads.
Theo - t3․gg·47wI finally switched to Postgres.
A developer shares their experience switching from MySQL to PostgreSQL using PlanetScale's new PostgreSQL offering. The move was driven by PlanetScale's Metal infrastructure using local NVMe drives, which provides significantly better performance than traditional cloud database solutions. The article includes detailed benchmarks comparing PlanetScale PostgreSQL against competitors like Neon, Aurora, and Supabase, showing 2-20x performance improvements. The switch was particularly beneficial for Convex, which needed multi-database support per instance for their multi-tenant architecture. The performance gains come from PlanetScale's use of local NVMe storage instead of network-attached storage, combined with their Vitess-based replication and failover capabilities.
Hacker News·30w$5 PlanetScale — PlanetScale
PlanetScale announces a new $5/month single-node tier for their Postgres database service, making it more accessible for developers on day one. The PS-5 node type offers a non-HA configuration suitable for development, testing, and non-critical workloads, while maintaining the ability to vertically scale. This complements their existing $30/month three-node HA setup, allowing teams to start small and scale to production without platform migrations.