PlanetScale has introduced a preview version of Neki. Neki is sharded Postgres, a system that distributes a Postgres database across multiple machines while keeping regular Postgres on every shard.
An application connects to a Neki router over the standard Postgres protocol, so existing drivers, ORMs, and the connection string continue to work.
PlanetScale advises against using Neki in production systems during platform preview. The product is still changing, and some changes will be breaking.
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- PlanetScale has introduced a preview version of Neki. (confirmed by the publication itself: evidence; «Neki is now available in platform preview.»)
- Neki is sharded Postgres: it distributes a Postgres database across multiple machines while keeping regular Postgres on every shard. (confirmed by the publication itself: evidence; «It lets you scale a Postgres database across many machines while keeping real Postgres on every shard.»)
- An application connects to a Neki router over the standard Postgres protocol, so existing drivers, ORMs, and the connection string continue to work. (confirmed by the publication itself: evidence; «Your application connects to a Neki router over the standard Postgres wire protocol, so your existing drivers, ORMs, and connection string keep working.»)
- PlanetScale advises against using Neki in production systems during platform preview because the product is still changing and some changes will be breaking. (confirmed by the publication itself: evidence; «You should not run production workloads on Neki during the platform preview. The product is still changing, and some of those changes will be breaking.»)
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