PlanetScale
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A managed database platform built around MySQL.
Why it's here
Placed in Assess: 2 article(s) of evidence from 1 source(s), led by product launches, with 0 in the last 30 days. Confidence 32%.
Evidence (2)
- 8Hacker News·9/10/2026product_launchPlanetScale launches Neki, a sharded Postgres system
PlanetScale introduced Neki, a sharded Postgres offering designed to scale beyond a single machine. The system targets very high throughput and large data volumes, with claims of hundreds of millions of QPS and petabyte-scale storage.
- 4Hacker News·8/20/2026product_launchSpacetimeDB 2.0 draws scrutiny in technical review
A Hacker News-linked technical review examines SpacetimeDB 2.0 and argues that its promotional benchmarks are not fair or technically sound. The review says the product may have interesting ideas, but its comparisons against other databases are misleading because they pit different trade-offs against each other.