alt Hacker NewsLong story short, I didn't want to make that analysis/distinction because it would miss the point.
They excel in their respective areas based on the architectural decisions they've made for the use cases they wanted to optimize for.
PlanetScale, with their latest Metal introduction, optimized for super low latency (they act like they've reinvented the wheel, lol), but they clearly have something in mind going in this direction.
Neon offers many managed features for serverless PostgreSQL that were missing in the market, like instant branching, and with auto-scaling, you may perform better with variable workloads. From their perspective, they wanted to serve other use cases.
There's no reason to always compare apples to oranges, and no reason to hate one another when everyone is pushing the managed database industry forward.
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Well, I imagine at least the emotional aspect of this squabble had more than a billion reasons injected via Databricks.
> PlanetScale, with their latest Metal introduction, optimized for super low latency (they act like they've reinvented the wheel, lol), but they clearly have something in mind going in this direction.
I’ve spoken to them personally, and didn’t get the impression at all that they think they’ve “re-invented the wheel.” More like they realized that separating compute and storage was a god-awful idea, and are bringing back how things used to be in the days of boring tech.
Also, re: branching, PS MySQL definitely has that. I assume they’ll bring it to Postgres.