PlanetScale's Neki hits 118M queries per second

118M Queries per Second on Neki

PlanetScale released Neki, a sharded Postgres service, yesterday. Today they benchmarked it: 512 shards sustained 118M queries per second for 16 minutes, peaking at 118.7M. Each shard is a single r8g.16xlarge primary with no replicas, fronted by 480 routers. Workload was single-row point selects by primary key—no writes, no cross-shard queries. Router p99 latency was 6.06ms, client p99 was 13.95ms. Error rate was ~67 per second (1 in 1.8M queries). Total data was 1.22 PiB. The post doesn't disclose pricing or GA timeline.