nikita

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   by nikita 4y ago

   No Postgres only requires 8K. One can imagine adapting Neon storage to other engines then of course this can be extended.
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   by nikita 4y ago

   Again it is a big commitment to do a good job on implementing columnstores. If you don't do it all the way it not very usable and you are confusing your users by giving them too many options. The performance expectation is now set by g
3. 303.▲
   by nikita 4y ago

   Fixed. Thank you for catching in. Renaming a company is hard even pre launch :)
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   by nikita 4y ago

   I'll work with Andy Pavlo who is a friend to set up a presentation. And yes, we are hiring! So if and when you are ready let us know.
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   by nikita 4y ago

   Yep, Delaware corp with top tier US investors. I'm in the Bay Area. Heikki is in Finland. Stas is in Cyprus. Majority of engineering is in Europe, some in the US and Canada. Postgres is a global phenomenon.
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   by nikita 4y ago

   There is an enterprise company called Delphix that does it on top of Zfs - so the idea was in the air. Instead of duct taping this together with a filesystem we purpose built database storage. The advantage to this is that we can much tight
7. 307.▲
   by nikita 4y ago

   Fixed - sorry, sleepless night.
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   by nikita 4y ago

   We are not building it in house right now - we are focusing on OLTP. But have plenty ideas of how to do it in the future. In the first iteration we are thinking about an integration with Singlestore, Snowflake, and BigQuery. Singlestore wil
9. 309.▲
   by nikita 4y ago

   I can't recommend this presentation enough!
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    by nikita 4y ago

    Replied
11. 311.▲
    by nikita 4y ago

    Thank you! We are super hard at work. You can see our velocity here: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon
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    by nikita 4y ago

    1. Yes. Our first attempt at storage implementation had a problem with many small file. Then the team rearchitected it around LSM trees and it got a LOT better. Our benchmarks show that we are very close in performance with vanilla Postgres
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    by nikita 4y ago

    Thank you! Snowflake is a better cloud data warehouse than Postgres, but of course Postgres is so versatile. Neon will give you some of the Snowflake features: time machine, cloning - we call this branching, data sharing.
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    by nikita 4y ago

    We got a lot of "join waitlist" submission. Thank you HackerNews for this! Please email beta@neon.tech for the invite code. We will ask for feedback in return.
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    by nikita 4y ago

    It's cheap. Storage footprint is 15Mb and will be shrunk further. Min compute footprint is a 1 core container that shuts down when not used. We are already working with customers that do that. This is for sure a great use case for Neon
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    by nikita 4y ago

    We will send you an invite code soon. This is a good start and also RFCs on github. We will be publishing more and more
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    by nikita 4y ago

    Yes, we are discussing either simply using Postgres replication to move data to other regions and use our proxy to rout reads to the datacenter closer to the user (like fly.io). This will have issues with supporting more than ~5 regions. OR
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    by nikita 4y ago

    We will announce in a few weeks. Top tier Silicon Valley investors.
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    by nikita 4y ago

    Yes, you will never run out of storage with Neon. The reason to it that in our tiered storage implementation S3 is the cheapest tier and we will offload data into S3 if it gets too big.
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    by nikita 4y ago

    Thank you. PixelPoint ( https://pixelpoint.io/ ) designed the landing page. Copy stuff may change we want to make the story clearer and highlight more features.
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    by nikita 4y ago

    Neon is a better name!
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    by nikita 4y ago

    Thank you for the kind words Mani! Singlestore is indeed an amazing product and company. I'm really proud of it!
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    by nikita 4y ago

    There is a big difference between in architecture between Neon and PlanetScale, CockroachDb, and Yugabyte. Neon is shared storage (storage is distributed but shared) and the others are shared nothing. Shared nothing systems are hard to buil
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    by nikita 4y ago

    No documentation of how to self host yet. It's not hard, it requires K8S and S3 compatible object store. We want to harden Neon operationally before documenting and supporting on prem production installs.
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    by nikita 4y ago

    We haven't launched pricing yet. In fact our official launch is in a few weeks. This HN post "leaked". We will launch, allow people to use it for free and introduce pricing later this year.
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    by nikita 4y ago

    Short answer: page servers and cache on compute nodes hide S3 latency. An architecture description is here: https://neon.tech/docs/storage-engine/architecture-overview/ . We will be publishing more on that.
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    by nikita 4y ago

    It's supported. The beauty of the architecture is that it doesn't break plugins.
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    by nikita 4y ago

    We are committed to building a durable company and we are well funded. So yes, you will hear from us for years to come as we will be shipping more and more features.
29. 329.▲
    by nikita 4y ago

    Right now it is 2 seconds. We are working on improving it.
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    by nikita 4y ago

    One idea we have is to allow running future unreleased and beta versions of Postgres. Do people want this?