platform
Neon
Powerful serverless Postgres but ecosystem still maturing
7.7Overall
Utility8
Onboarding7
Craft8
Niche fit7
Longevity8
Five dimensions scored independently; overall is a weighted average. Scores are only comparable within this same rubric.
Good for
Teams needing autoscaling Postgres with zero-downtime branching
Not for
Workloads requiring mature extensions like PostGIS
Project description
Serverless PostgreSQL. Branching, auto-scaling to zero. Acquired by Databricks for ~$1B. Slashed prices: storage $0.35/GB-month. HTTP driver for edge.