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Neon (serverless Postgres) transitions away from open source

story by crispair · 2026-01-10 · 2 comments

See: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon

comment by hardwaresofton · 2025-08-08 · in Writing a storage engine for Postgres: An in-memory table access method (2023)

is it open source? (this? https://github.com/neondatabase/neon.git ) and since it's serverless, in terms of being on the internet what are you saying has disappeared, a proprietary version? support/consulting contracts?

comment by fsckboy · 2025-06-02 · in Snowflake to buy Crunchy Data for $250M

I can't easily add &exclude_maintainers=true but https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Acl... sure does look like quite a bit of merged contributions to me, which is not what I would consider "code dump"

comment by mdaniel · 2025-05-06 · in Databricks in talks to acquire startup Neon for about $1B

Lucky you, you still can as it's Apache 2 https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/blob/release-8516/LICEN... I haven't studied the CLA situation in order to know if a rug pull is on the table but Tofu and Valkey have shown that where there's…

comment by mdaniel · 2025-05-06 · in Databricks in talks to acquire startup Neon for about $1B

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41989041 combined with https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/blob/release-7011/LICEN... is a pretty stark contrast, IMHO

comment by mdaniel · 2024-10-30 · in Prisma Postgres – Runs on bare metal and unikernels

> I assume you're thinking of using FoundationDB as a page store, much like https://github.com/neondatabase/neon uses S3? Actually not, I'm replacing Postres storage entirely down to the tuple level with FoundationDB instead. Neon is…

comment by fabianlindfors · 2024-10-01 · in Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

I assume you're thinking of using FoundationDB as a page store, much like https://github.com/neondatabase/neon uses S3? If not, and you're trying to go more directly for FDB-KV, I hope you're aware of https://www.voltactivedata.com/blog/201…

comment by yencabulator · 2024-10-01 · in Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

…now (Devlog still in early alpha, not a lot of customers) so I just moved on. Issue tracked here https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/4178

comment by peterldowns · 2024-08-07 · in Neon: A serverless open-source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres

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Neon: A serverless open-source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres

story by thunderbong · 2024-08-07 · 50 comments

…of its database branching feature, which made testing and development faster looks like Neon( https://github.com/neondatabase/neon ) seems to have helped them with testing and development. Being able to iterate and validate changes is a…

comment by agent001 · 2024-07-01 · in Our great database migration

…compare to Neon[1], Crunchy PostgreSQL for Kubernetes[2], and Citus[3]? [1] https://neon.tech / https://github.com/neondatabase/neon [2] https://access.crunchydata.com/documentation/postgres-operat... /…

comment by sea-gold · 2024-05-29 · in Show HN: Serverless Postgres

…as a chance to bring attention to a GitHub issue that I think would help reduce friction for Neon: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/4989 If the Neon driver were to allow us to easily pass in a localhost connection, the…

comment by vendiddy · 2024-04-15 · in Neon Serverless Postgres is generally available

…open source our cloud native storage." Also, at the top right there's a link to the GitHub repo: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon You can find replies from folks in this thread as well discussing self hosted deployments and you can…

comment by ZeroCool2u · 2024-04-15 · in Neon Serverless Postgres is generally available

…The only available code we can use is usually protocol violation... [0]: https://neon.tech/ [1]: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/tree/main/proxy

comment by conradludgate · 2024-03-14 · in Parsing the Postgres protocol – logging executed statements

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Neon: Serverless Postgres

story by tosh · 2024-03-13 · 0 comments

…https://neon.tech check them out. Really good bunch. Product is great and it's open-sourced https://github.com/neondatabase/neon

comment by zacksiri · 2024-01-10 · in AWS cancels serverless Postgres service that scales to zero

…different use case, but https://neon.tech may interest you and is actually Open Source (Apache 2) https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/blob/main/LICENSE

comment by mdaniel · 2023-12-14 · in Open and portable Postgres-as-a-service. Also available on Hetzner

I found their docker-compose more helpful than their chart: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/blob/main/docker-compos... But I also needed to read their Ansible files to understand how they manage their infra better. Those are deleted…

comment by 5Qn8mNbc2FNCiVV · 2023-05-30 · in Databricks acquires serverless Postgres vendor bit.io

Not this one though, they are open source so someone else would start to offer new hosted instances: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon Some Helm charts: https://github.com/neondatabase/helm-charts It could potentially be one of their…

comment by tuukkah · 2023-05-30 · in Databricks acquires serverless Postgres vendor bit.io

Yes, see thread https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/3395 P.S: Thanks for helping with this!

comment by bean_salad_123 · 2023-05-23 · in Postgres and "Persistent Data Structures"

…pretty cool. I might try it for some homelab type stuff that doesn't need a database running 24/7. https://github.com/neondatabase/neon

comment by johntash · 2023-01-23 · in Serverless PostgreSQL on Replit

Let's commit this to ClickBench: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/2855 So, NeonDB can be compared with other serverless Postgres offerings.

comment by zX41ZdbW · 2023-01-02 · in Databases in 2022: A Year in Review

…put a SQLite or MySQL compute layer on top of the storage layer instead of postgres. Discussion: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/discussions/1958 The fact that they're targeting vanilla postgres is also intriuging because that means…

comment by infogulch · 2022-07-09 · in Architecture Decisions in Neon

…You can already build and run all base components on your local machine, see instructions here: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/tree/d11c9f9fcb950ac263... . You can run the tests instead if you want more insight into how a particular…

comment by yeputons · 2022-06-15 · in Select ’Hello, World’: Serverless Postgres Built for the Cloud

https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/discussions/1853#discus...

comment by johtso · 2022-06-15 · in Select ’Hello, World’: Serverless Postgres Built for the Cloud

Looks like it's already released as FOSS. Stellar! https://github.com/neondatabase/neon

comment by metadat · 2022-06-15 · in Select ’Hello, World’: Serverless Postgres Built for the Cloud

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Neon: The serverless open source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres

story by kiyanwang · 2022-06-04 · 13 comments

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An open source alternative to AWS Aurora

story by feross · 2022-06-01 · 1 comment

…adoption. We see however other folks, such as Neon picking permissive license for their technology https://github.com/neondatabase/neon I think for Open Source Project just starting up concern of "Clouds will steal my lunch" is just…

comment by PeterZaitsev · 2022-06-01 · in Dragonflydb – A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached

[1] https://github.com/neondatabase/neon#architecture-overview

comment by rattray · 2022-05-28 · in Neon – Serverless Postgres

…contribute an integration to your persistent blob storage: the code is available under APLv2 here: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/

comment by mattashii · 2022-05-28 · in Neon – Serverless Postgres

…has the kubernetes bits been made available? I see https://github.com/neondatabase/helm-charts and https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/tree/main/.circleci/hel... but I think there is some charts missing?

comment by edude03 · 2022-05-28 · in Neon – Serverless Postgres

…on Azure, you could contribute the integration yourself: the code is available under Apache 2 at https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/

comment by mattashii · 2022-05-28 · in Neon – Serverless Postgres

…stream [0], but we've not yet checked on sending logical or physical replication streams. [0] https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/1632

comment by mattashii · 2022-05-28 · in Neon – Serverless Postgres

…DBaaS, the closest analogy here is Aurora or Alloy, not RDS-like setups. A bit more details are on https://github.com/neondatabase/neon

comment by kelvich · 2022-05-28 · in Neon – Serverless Postgres

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

comment by nikita · 2022-05-28 · in Neon – Serverless Postgres

…stubbing out the storage layer with a remote replicated consistent storage solution. Also neon: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon

comment by xtanx · 2022-05-18 · in Let's build a distributed Postgres proof of concept