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Nick Van Wiggeren [@NickVanWig]

Neki, sharded Postgres by PlanetScale, is now available in platform preview.


Florent Poinsard, Hirad Pourtahmasbi

We ran a massive, sharded Postgres database at 118.5 million queries per second, with 200k queries per second on each shard across 512 shards.


PlanetScale

Follow a SQL query through the router, across four Postgres shards, and back.


Andres Taylor, Harshit Gangal, Ahmed Darwich [@AhmedDarwich]

A Neki router gives applications a Postgres connection to one database while planning and coordinating queries across the shards behind it.


Josh Brown [@imjosh]

Why has it taken so long to get good Postgres sharding? The last 20 years are the answer.


Harshit Gangal, Ahmed Darwich [@AhmedDarwich]

A data topology describes the sharding scheme a Neki router uses to map logical PostgreSQL tables to physical shards and route queries.


Ben Dicken [@BenjDicken]

PlanetScale backs up petabyte-scale sharded Postgres databases in hours using parallel infrastructure, object storage, and WAL replay.


Andres Taylor, Dirkjan Bussink, Harshit Gangal, Nick Van Wiggeren [@NickVanWig], Noble Mittal, Rohit Nayak, Roman Sodermans, Shlomi Noach, Sam Lambert [@samlambert]

Sharded Postgres by the team behind Vitess