118 million queries per second on Neki
Summary
The article reports on Neki, a sharded Postgres deployment by PlanetScale, achieving 118 million queries per second across 512 shards and 483 routers with 1.22 PiB of data. It details a read-only benchmark consisting of primary-key lookups, demonstrates linear scalability across shard counts, and provides metrics such as per-shard QPS, latency, cache hit rate, and network throughput.