Neon – Serverless Postgres

1. neon

   1 159 15,841 10.0 Rust

   Neon: Serverless Postgres. We separated storage and compute to offer autoscaling, code-like database branching, and scale to zero.

   

   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?

2. SaaSHub

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   SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

   

3. PolarDB-for-PostgreSQL

   2 13 2,931 9.6 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?

4. zenith

   3 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

5. cockroach

   4 108 30,397 10.0 Go

   CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.

   

   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!

6. walex

   5 19 298 8.6 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

7. helm-charts

   6 3 40 7.9 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?

8. database-lab-engine

   7 20 2,118 8.8 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

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