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Neon Serverless Postgres

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Neon: Serverless Postgres. We separated storage and compute to offer autoscaling, code-like database branching, and scale to zero. observed · 2026-09-23

github.com/neondatabase/neon · homepage · Rust · Apache-2.0 (permissive) observed · 2026-09-23

Health v2 · maintenance only

71/100

  • Activity 92
  • Release rhythm 28
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 1
  • age_days: 2034
  • days_rel: 448
  • days_push: 50
  • n_releases_24m: 124

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Adoption not part of the score

23123 stars · 1101 forks observed · 2026-09-23

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-10-12, confidence 0.97

Neon is an open-source serverless PostgreSQL platform that separates storage and compute for autoscaling and instant branching. It can be run locally or deployed as a managed cloud service.

Use cases

  • run a PostgreSQL database that scales automatically with demand
  • create branchable database environments for feature testing
  • use vector and full-text search extensions on PostgreSQL
  • build applications that need instant restore and point-in-time recovery
  • develop serverless backends with integrated authentication and object storage
  • run PostgreSQL workloads with zero idle cost

When to choose

  • you need a PostgreSQL database that can autoscale and scale to zero
  • you want branchable databases for CI/CD or preview environments
  • you prefer a cloud-native, serverless architecture with separate storage and compute
  • you need built‑in vector search capabilities via extensions

When to avoid

  • you require a fully on‑premises, stateful PostgreSQL instance with no external storage
  • your workload cannot tolerate the network latency between compute and storage layers
  • you need a database engine other than PostgreSQL

Facets

service · maturity active

database vector-database search-engine databases cloud-computing backend cloud self-hosted serverless autoscaling branching scale-to-zero instant-restore postgresql rust linux

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