Sequences and other volatiles in Neki
How Neki evaluates PostgreSQL volatile expressions with the right cardinality to preserve sequence semantics across shards.
Data & Databases13 min read
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PlanetScale Blog
Databases at scale: MySQL, Postgres and Vitess.
PlanetScale is now available on Azure
PlanetScale Postgres and Neki databases can now be deployed on Microsoft Azure
Cloud & Infrastructure3 min read
What gets TOASTed in Postgres
Postgres 19 switches TOAST compression from pglz to LZ4. LZ4 is faster, but it isn't always smaller, and some reads get slower with it.
Data & Databases10 min read
TIN v1.0.6: 2-3x faster, with support for stemming
TIN v1.0.6 supports stemming in 18 languages and is 2 3x as fast as the GA version
Cloud & Infrastructure7 min read
What today's software owes to Bronze Age clocks
Admission controls in software determine what does or doesn't happen next, and the most common implementation has ancient roots.
AI & ML8 min read
Introducing Dedicated Read Replicas for Postgres
Use dedicated read replicas to isolate read only workloads and distribute your data across data centers around the world.
Data & Databases2 min read
Building a faster, lazier router for Postgres
Nothing is as fast as not doing anything. How Neki keeps great performance by only decoding the parts of a PostgreSQL result the router actually needs.
Data & Databases13 min read
Handling hot shards
What makes a good sharding strategy today might not work so well tomorrow. What happens when you have one tenant hitting your database orders of magnitude more than any other? Or product managers knocking down your door with new requirements? If you're already on Neki, fortunately these are issues we can solve.
Data & Databases7 min read
When to choose x86-64 vs aarch64
ARM and x86 can give you different performance at the same vCPU count. Here's what differs, what to measure, and how to choose.
Cloud & Infrastructure6 min read
TIN Postgres search is faster, better, and cheaper
A good Postgres search demo was doing the rounds online. Let's see what happens when we upgrade it to TIN.
Data & Databases3 min read
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