118M Queries per Second on Neki

PlanetScale’s Neki sharded Postgres platform demonstrated linear-style scaling to 118.5 million read-only queries per second across 512 shards and 1.22 PiB of data, signaling that Postgres-based architectures can now support extreme scale without moving to a completely different database stack. For CIOs and technology leaders, the strategic takeaway is that sharding and distributed database design can materially expand capacity while preserving familiar Postgres tooling, but the benchmark also underscores that operational discipline, routing, and shard management become core IT responsibilities. This matters most for organizations planning high-throughput, globally distributed applications, where database architecture can become a competitive differentiator and a key constraint on growth.