--- title: Announcing Neki — PlanetScale | daily.dev description: PlanetScale announces Neki, a new sharded Postgres solution built from first principles by the team behind Vitess. Unlike Vitess which leverages MySQL, Neki is... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-neki-planetscale-vuy9chopx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Announcing Neki — PlanetScale | daily.dev og:description: PlanetScale announces Neki, a new sharded Postgres solution built from first principles by the team behind Vitess. Unlike Vitess which leverages MySQL, Neki is... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-neki-planetscale-vuy9chopx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/vUy9ChOpx.png og:image:alt: Announcing Neki — PlanetScale og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Announcing Neki — PlanetScale **[PlanetScale](https://daily.dev/sources/planetscale)** · 1 min read · 51 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary PlanetScale announces Neki, a new sharded Postgres solution built from first principles by the team behind Vitess. Unlike Vitess which leverages MySQL, Neki is designed specifically for Postgres workloads and will be released as open source when ready. The project aims to bring the same extreme scale capabilities that Vitess provides for MySQL to the Postgres ecosystem. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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