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Neki – Sharded Postgres by the team behind Vitess


Sharded Postgres by the team behind Vitess

By Andres Taylor, Dirkjan Bussink, Harshit Gangal, Nick Van Wiggeren, Noble Mittal, Rohit Nayak, Roman Sodermans, Shlomi Noach, Sam Lambert | August 11, 2025Today, we are announcing Neki — sharded Postgres by the team behind Vitess. We have made explicit sharding accessible to hundreds of thousands of people and it is time to bring this power to Postgres. When we are ready we will release Neki as an open source project suitable for running the most demanding Postgres workloads.

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