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Introducing the Neon Hasura integration
Neon and Hasura have partnered to provide developers with instant GraphQL API with Serverless Postgres. Today we’re releasing the first milestone: a native integration that lets you create a Neon project in 1 click from the Hasura console. We continue to focus on the developer ex...
Neon October Update
October has been a great month. We improved query performance for larger databases, added support for the PostgreSQL15 version, we strengthened our relationships with the Postgres ecosystem and the community. Here is a list of some things we have done this month. Create a Neon pr...
Neon Developer Days 1: 6-8 December 2022
In June 2022, we presented Neon as a fully managed Serverless Postgres built for the cloud. Since then, we have worked closely with the Postgres and developer communities to help address common challenges in building modern applications. We want to continue that partnership with...
ketteQ uses Neon branching for scenario analysis
ketteQ is a supply chain planning and automation platform built on Salesforce and AWS. Its scenario management framework allows its users to model capacity, forecast demand, plan operations, manage orders and handle disruptions by enabling them to model various scenarios in their...
Branching Postgres databases with the Neon API
In this post, we’ll discuss using database branching and the Neon API from a CI/CD pipeline. By the end of this post, you’ll have a better understanding of how database branching can help you test your code and schema changes before deploying to production. What is a branch? A br...
How Proposales integrated Neon in their Postgres development workflow
Switching databases is like a heart transplant, and migrating all your database’s production, staging, and development environments across providers is a risky process that requires significant effort and expertise, all of which can be quite intimidating. But you don’t have to ch...
Building an AI-powered ChatBot using Vercel, OpenAI, and Postgres
ChatGPT has demonstrated how powerful and attractive large language models are. OpenAI API allows you to use word embeddings to tailor a ChatGPT-like app for your business. This article covers the following: To illustrate how to build an app that uses pgvector and the OpenAI API,...
ORMs vs. Query Builders for your Typescript application
Typed SQL libraries for Typescript are designed to provide a robust, maintainable, and developer-friendly interface between your code and the database. However, choosing the right library for your Typescript project can be difficult since they all offer similar functionalities. T...
Automating Neon branch creation with Githooks
In this blog post, we’ll walk through creating a Githook script that automates the creation of Neon branches every time a new Git branch is created. This is possible because Neon provides an API to manage your projects, branches, and most other operations supported by the Neon Co...
Optimizing vector search performance with pgvector
According to the StackOverflow Survey 2023, nearly half of professional developers use Postgres. It’s natural then that the Postgres extension for vector similarity search, pgvector, is one of the most popular options for prototyping AI-powered applications. But how to properly u...
Sub-10ms Postgres queries for Vercel Edge Functions
Today, we are thrilled to announce the release of our enhanced driver for your Postgres queries at the Edge. With this release, developers can observe a 40% reduction in query latencies from Vercel Serverless Functions and Edge Functions, bringing same-region queries down to sing...
Introducing Same-Region Read Replicas to Serverless Postgres
Today, we are excited to introduce same-region read replicas to Neon’s serverless architecture, an important milestone in achieving global replication. To start using Neon’s read replicas, you’ll need to sign up for Neon’s Pro plan. You can create a read replica on the Neon conso...
HTTP vs. WebSockets: Which protocol for your Postgres queries at the Edge
Faster is always better, especially when executing SQL queries. We recently introduced SQL-over-HTTP to our driver, which previously only supported WebSockets. Why did we do that? And which approach is faster? Our journey developing the WebSockets serverless driver We first devel...
20x faster than pgvector: introducing pg_embedding extension for vector search in Postgres and LangChain
We’re excited to announce the release of our pg_embedding extension for Postgres and LangChain! The new pg_embedding extension brings 20x the speed for 99% accuracy to graph-based approximate nearest neighbor search to your Postgres databases. While the pgvector extension with IV...
Postgres at your fingertips with the Neon CLI
Today, we are releasing Neon CLI, a command-line interface that enables developers to manage Neon resources directly from the terminal! With Neon CLI, you can handle authentication, and manage projects, branches, databases, roles, and much more without leaving your command line....
Understanding the new JSON capabilities in Postgres 16
We’re excited to announce that Neon now supports Postgres 16. This latest release includes several performance improvements and developer experience enhancements. One of the most anticipated features is the expanded support for SQL/JSON syntax, including: In this article, we will...
Understanding vector search and HNSW index with pgvector
Vector embeddings have become an essential component of Generative AI applications. These embeddings encapsulate the meaning of the text, thus enabling AI models to understand which texts are semantically similar. The process of extracting the most similar texts from your databas...
We’re sunsetting pg_embedding in favor of pgvector
pg_embedding has introduced the Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW) index to Postgres, allowing vector search to scale in Postgres. But with the addition of HNSW to pgvector 0.5.0, we see little benefit to the community to have to choose between two vector search extensions...
Speed up your global queries with caching for Serverless Postgres
We’re excited to announce we have rolled out a new integration with PolyScale to distribute and cache your data globally, ensuring low-latency read queries no matter where in the world you are. The integration achieves this without the complexities of cross-regional replication o...
Mistral 7B and BAAI on Workers AI vs. OpenAI Models for RAG
In the rapidly progressing world of artificial intelligence, choosing the right model for AI-powered applications is crucial. This article explores a comparative analysis of the Mistral 7B model, a promising alternative to OpenAI’s GPT models and BAAI models in the context of Ret...