PlanetScale Introduces Neki: Sharded Postgres by Vitess Team
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Summary
The article announces Neki, a sharded Postgres solution developed by the team behind Vitess, leveraging their experience in scaling databases. Neki aims to make explicit sharding accessible to a broader audience, building on Vitess's strengths without being a fork of it.
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Vitess is one of PlanetScale’s greatest strengths and contemporary Vitess is the product of our experience running at extreme scale.
We have made explicit sharding accessible to hundreds of thousands of people and it is time to bring this power to Postgres.
Neki is not a fork of Vitess. Vitess’ achievements are enabled by leveraging MySQL’s strengths and engineering.
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