Neon

Neon is a distributed team building an open-source, cloud-native, serverless Postgres platform designed to help developers build reliable and scalable applications faster. Neon separates storage and compute, featuring a custom-built distributed storage engine written in Rust and a cloud control plane in Go. Key features include instant provisioning, autoscaling, database branching for CI/CD, instant Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR), connection pooling, and multi-tenancy support. Neon focuses on 100% Postgres compatibility and aims to simplify database operations for modern workflows, including SaaS applications, serverless apps, AI applications (with pgvector support), and development/testing environments. The architecture leverages technologies like Paxos for consensus and storage sharding for scalability, utilizing cloud object storage for cost-efficiency.