Neon is a serverless Postgres database platform designed to help developers build reliable and scalable applications faster. It offers several key features:
- Autoscaling: Automatic instance sizing that scales with traffic and scales to zero when idle
- Branching: Instant data and schema branching for development, CI/CD, and schema migrations with copy-on-write storage
- Instant Provisioning: Databases provisioned in 300ms with no waiting or configuration
- Bottomless Storage: Scalable storage with copy-on-write technology
- Instant Restores: Ability to recover terabytes of data in seconds
- Connection Pooler: Built-in pgBouncer for efficient connection management
- Serverless Driver: Fast queries over HTTP with edge-ready capabilities
- API & CLI Management: Programmatic database management for thousands of databases
- AI Integration: HNSW index algorithm for efficient vector search, compatible with PGVECTOR and langchain
Use Cases:
- Serverless applications that need to autoscale with traffic
- Multi-tenant architectures with database-per-tenant isolation
- Development and testing environments with production-like data
- AI applications requiring high-performance vector search
- Platforms offering Postgres to end users
Target Users: Startups, developers, and teams building modern applications who want to focus on development rather than database management.
