PlanetScale pushes Neki past 118 million read queries per second on a narrow test
The 512-shard run scaled cleanly, while skipping writes, joins, replicas and failover - the parts production databases cannot skip.
By RuntimeWire Staff · Published
Primary source: PlanetScale
Why it matters
Neki extends PlanetScale's Vitess-derived sharding model into PostgreSQL, opening a larger market for the founders' core technology. The benchmark shows strong horizontal read scaling, while production credibility will depend on writes, replication, failover and cross-shard work.
PlanetScale, founded by Jitendra "Jiten" Vaidya and Sugu Sougoumarane (@ssougou), said in a benchmark published September 11th that its Neki database sustained 118,538,803 queries per second across 512 PostgreSQL shards for 16 minutes.…
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