Neon
Neon is a serverless Postgres database that separates compute and storage, offering instant scalability, branching capabilities, and cost-efficiency. It provides a cloud-native architecture that aims to deliver the flexibility of serverless functions to the traditional relational database world.
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2021
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Neon solves the inherent challenges of traditional relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL, in cloud-native and serverless environments: lack of instant scalability, complex scaling operations, high costs for idle instances, and difficulty in managing development and staging environments through database cloning/branching. It aims to provide the full power of Postgres with the elasticity, cost-efficiency, and developer experience expected in modern serverless applications.
- Platforms
- Cloud (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure - as a managed service)
Related technologies
Notable users
- Developers building web applications, APIs, and microservices on serverless platforms.
- Vercel (partner and user)
- Supabase (partner and user)