PlanetScale
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PlanetScale sells managed MySQL and Postgres on NVMe hardware, with Vitess-style horizontal sharding. It is bought by engineering teams running large production databases, from $5 a month for a single node and $50 a month for its Metal tier.
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September 2026
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PlanetScale publishes its Neki benchmark, caveats and all (opens in a new tab)
09-14 Campaign planetscale.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)
PlanetScale ran its sharded Postgres engine Neki to 118,538,803 single-row point-select queries per second.
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PlanetScale opens Neki, its sharded Postgres, to platform preview (opens in a new tab)
09-13 Release planetscale.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)
PlanetScale's changelog says Neki, its from-scratch sharded Postgres engine.
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PlanetScale ships sharded Postgres that stays real Postgres (opens in a new tab)
09-11 Launch planetscale.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Neki distributes a Postgres database across multiple machines while keeping full Postgres.
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PlanetScale prints the benchmark's limits first
blog planetscale.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)
118.5 million queries a second, and in the same post - single-row reads only, primary-only.
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PlanetScale serves its price list as a database
pricing planetscale.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)
The pricing page hands out a read-only Postgres connection so you, or your agent.