alt Hacker NewsNeki
Comments
The tech might be amazing, but the CEO comes across as an asshole
I love how the Planetscale CEO has been shitting on multigres[0], Supabase's equivalent to Neki, and gloating about how superior Neki is, and yet Neki is not even open source!
Sam, it feels like you're just playing games. It's hard to take anything you say or do seriously. Are you going to OSS this thing? Or have you decided to backpedal?
Congrats on the checks notes closed launch, I guess?
The top concern I've gotten from dev teams when proposing HA distributed postgres (e.g through RDS Aurora global) is that eventual consistency is not suitable for many workloads.
Does Neki solve for this, and if so how? My understanding of CAP theorem is that this basically requires some compromises around availability, but I'm curious as to what that looks like in practice here.
Kinda ironic that Planet scale built their company on open source Vitess that google built
And now planet scale have made a Vitess like equivalent for Postgres which they have made proprietary
I need this for my side project that has zero users, but I wonder if Neki will scale well enough.
I love to see this but as a heavy Vitess/MySQL user I do fear the split focus from PlanetScale. Hoping to see continued improvements on the Vitess side as well.
Selfish doubts aside, congrats to Planetscale on the launch!
Man, I was deep into this blog post before I was able to answer the question "what is Neki?".
Is this going to be open sourced? I thought this was the plan at the start. But ow I am confused.
I am on a 12 Muni right now that is plastered with a Neki ad, and I looked up neki.dev literally 10 mins ago to see what this product is about. Did they time the release of this bus ad with the launch date?
Neki is a sharded Postgres implementation. It introduces one level of indirection between the application and the Postgres shards.
Found this from neki.dev.
Nice work by the marketing department getting two posts on HN front page at same time.
A C2 level diagram included in the blog post would be helpful. What are the drawbacks to using Neki aside from the obvious (new software has bugs)?
Pretty exciting to see a sharded Postgres product in the market.
The pitch is compelling. I wonder how many teams will be able to operate sharded database setups in production as a result of this.
Cool, but we're on MySQL - anything similar available? Percona XtraDB?
Obviously welcome more tools for Postgres and sharding but it’s a tough hill to climb against the hyper clouds. Best wishes to the team.
The first question came to my mind was, how would this compare against Citus.
Independent of the product, love the branding design for this page.
is this open-sourced?
I see no mention of foreign keys, or any other constraints, across shards. If, as I suspect, they're not implemented, it would still be useful but at the level of Spanner 10 years ago.
Will this be open source at some point?
It's not Open Source Software. So, I'm not even interested. Lol
Site design is tight. I like it.
can we choose read-after-write consistency at query time, if needed?
only planet scale? Rookie numbers.
I am looking for interdimensional and interuniversal scale. Which of you trust fund babies has a startup which is working on this problem?
[dead]
[dead]
Folks, in your launch posts remember to describe what you're launching and what it's for. Ideally in the opening paragraph.
- Intro: Explains problem but not what is Neki or what it's for.
- Why Neki: Explains alternatives and why they suck but not what is Neki or what it's for.
- How does Neki work: Describes the technical components but not what is Neki or what it's for.
- What you get beyond sharding: Explains how to run/deploy but not what is Neki or what it's for.
- What is a platform preview + Try Neki today: 140 words on the definition of "preview" and links to get started... but not what is Neki or what it's for.
Edit: The landing page has 100x more useful information up front -> https://neki.dev/
Edit #2: They've since added a "What is Neki" section. Good reaction time.