Neon – Serverless Postgres

• neon

  122 12,186 9.9 Rust

  Neon: Serverless Postgres. We separated storage and compute to offer autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage.

  

This is really amazing, super excited to try it out.

I read the docs and I noticed you can run it locally, but has the kubernetes bits been made available? I see https://github.com/neondatabase/helm-charts and https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/tree/main/.circleci/hel... but I think there is some charts missing?

• PolarDB-for-PostgreSQL

  13 2,755 8.3 C

  A cloud-native database based on PostgreSQL developed by Alibaba Cloud.

  

Amazing work by the Team. Congrats y'all. It was one of the best presentations in the PGcon22.

I did email Heikki the following questions, in case if someone from Neon is around here.

a) How does Neon compare to polardb https://github.com/ApsaraDB/PolarDB-for-PostgreSQL.

b) The readme mentions a component "Repository - Neon storage implementation". Does it use any special FileSystem? Any links to read more about it?

c) Heard the cold start is a second (IIRC), how does that value differ if one runs Neon on bare metal instead of k8s?

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• zenith

  1 578 9.9 Rust

  Discontinued The serverless open source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres. [Moved to: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon] (by neondatabase)

  

In case anyone else is wondering, it was called Zenith / ZenithDB before launch: https://github.com/neondatabase/zenith

• cockroach

  100 29,023 10.0 Go

  CockroachDB - the open source, cloud-native distributed SQL database.

  

Just yesterday I was comparing managed serverless postgres offers and was sad to temporarily end my investigation with a compromise of using managed aws RDS for development, hoping that a fully serverless postgres with a nice free tier would pop up before going to production, and here we are!

Congrats to the team for what feels like an amazing product. Signed up for the early access, can't wait to get my hands on this!

For anyone interested, these ere the DB offers I looked into:

* DO managed postgres, no free tier but price scaling was not too aggressive, the issue is that it's not natively serverless and we're gonna get 100s of ephemeral connections.

* Cockroach, was the best option for our use case but it doesn't support triggers and stored procedures, so we can't use it right now (closely following https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/28296)

* Fly.io price scaling is too aggressive 6$ -> 33 -> 154 -> 1000s a month and no free tier that I could find.

* Aurora serverless v2 is only for aws internal access and we are using gcp.

* Aurora v1 was what we were gonna go with, but a lot of people online have showed their negative opinion around slow scaling. I didn't investigate enough but I'm thinking we'd need to setup RDS proxy for it handle all our connections, which would've bumped up the price by a good amount. Also no free tier.

* Alloydb looked promising but also no free tier and starting price is a bit much for our current phase of development, but it was definitely something we'd look into in the future.

And now Neon, natively serverless with a (hopefully) good free tier to test things out and some hints about cross region data replication, amazing stuff!

• walex

  17 250 9.1 Elixir

  Postgres change events (CDC) in Elixir

Can we set our own logical replication? I'm listening to the WAL the same way Supabase does it: https://github.com/cpursley/walex#logical-replication

• helm-charts

  2 22 7.7 Smarty

  neondatabase helm charts (by neondatabase)

  

This is really amazing, super excited to try it out.

I read the docs and I noticed you can run it locally, but has the kubernetes bits been made available? I see https://github.com/neondatabase/helm-charts and https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/tree/main/.circleci/hel... but I think there is some charts missing?

• database-lab-engine

  20 1,893 8.2 TypeScript

  DBLab enables 🖖 database branching and ⚡️ thin cloning for any Postgres database and empowers DB testing in CI/CD. This optimizes database-related costs while improving time-to-market and software quality. Follow to stay updated.

  

Agreed, this direction is underestimated and should be developed better -- we (Postgres.ai) do it for any Postgres with our Database Lab Engine [1], and Neon would bring even more power if it's installed on production

[1] https://github.com/postgres-ai/database-lab-engine

• WorkOS

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

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