serverless PostgreSQL / distributed relational database
Open-source serverless Postgres platform that separates storage and compute for autoscaling, branching, and scale-to-zero.
Solves the same problem with a different architecture or at a different layer. Expect to rewrite the integration.
When you need a Postgres-compatible distributed SQL database with its own integrated storage and compute, not serverless.
CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.
When you want to scale Postgres by sharding via an extension rather than adopting a storage/compute separated platform.
Distributed PostgreSQL as an extension
When you need a Postgres-compatible distributed SQL DB with multi-region resilience and your own cluster management.
YugabyteDB - the cloud native distributed SQL database for mission-critical applications.
These projects were analysed and named neon among their alternatives. The relationship is not symmetric — how neon rates them is a separate judgement, made when neon is analysed in its own right.
calls neon “Choose for autoscaling serverless Postgres if you need a relational DB with SQL, not multi-model.”
A scalable, distributed, collaborative, document-graph database, for the realtime web
calls neon “choose when you need serverless Postgres with autoscaling and branching, not a self-managed cluster.”
CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.
calls neon “choose it when you want serverless Postgres with pgvector-compatible vector search alongside relational data.”
Search infrastructure for AI
calls neon “Choose when you want serverless Postgres with autoscaling and branching rather than a small, self-contained SQLite cluster.”
The lightweight, fault-tolerant database built on SQLite. Designed to keep your data highly available with minimal effort.
calls neon “choose for serverless Postgres with scale-to-zero and branching, not multi-model.”
🥑 ArangoDB is a native multi-model database with flexible data models for documents, graphs, and key-values. Build high performance applications using a convenient SQL-like query language or JavaScript extensions.
calls neon “Choose when you want serverless Postgres with autoscaling and branching, not a sharding extension.”
Distributed PostgreSQL as an extension
calls neon “Choose if you want serverless Postgres with scale-to-zero and branching, not a multi-writer distributed database.”
YugabyteDB - the cloud native distributed SQL database for mission-critical applications.
calls neon “Choose when you want managed serverless Postgres with branching and scale-to-zero instead of a database running in your process.”
A simple, fast and versatile Datalog database