This is exciting. The announcement says it will be open source. I really hope that this includes a functionally complete control plane so you realistically self-host.
I looked Neon recently, and it appears that it's designed as a SaaS product from the outset; while it is technically possible to self-host the individual components of the architecture, it does not look trivial, in large part because the control plane is closed source (and probably extremely specific to Neon's SaaS operations).
shoeb00m · 3h ago
Looks like there is two ongoing vitess for postgres projects. Hopefully this competition leads to a better postgres ecosystem.
I looked Neon recently, and it appears that it's designed as a SaaS product from the outset; while it is technically possible to self-host the individual components of the architecture, it does not look trivial, in large part because the control plane is closed source (and probably extremely specific to Neon's SaaS operations).
https://supabase.com/blog/multigres-vitess-for-postgres
Feels like it might be very useful since a lot of new technologies came out since spinning disks.
The Postgres team is working on replacing Postgres. With even better Postgres.
And then to lesser degrees you've got Yugabyte, AlloyDB, and Aurora DSQL (and certainly more I'm forgetting) that only replace parts of Postgres.