Neki update: $50 Metal, read-only replicas, Azure, and more

PlanetScale’s sharded PostgreSQL offering, Neki, has added read-only shard replicas, lower-cost Metal instances starting at $50 per month, and Azure deployment support during its platform preview. Recent updates also include Terraform and CLI management for extensions and router parameters, MCP-based branch metrics, configuration update indicators, and huge-page support for eligible Neki and PostgreSQL clusters. Engineering work has focused heavily on expanding SQL compatibility in the distributed query layer, adding support for operations such as cross-shard updates and deletes, MERGE, cursors, materialized views, LISTEN/NOTIFY, and PL/pgSQL exception handlers. Neki now supports standard export workflows through COPY TO STDOUT, has significantly improved distributed bulk-write performance, and provides shard-level execution details through EXPLAIN (NEKI_PG_PLAN). PlanetScale invites PostgreSQL users anticipating sharding, online schema changes, or downtime-free version upgrades to evaluate Neki through its solutions team.

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