Neon Postgres Database

Neon is a serverless Postgres database platform created by Heikki Linnakangas and Nikita Shamgunov in 2021, with Shamgunov being the former engineering director at Meta and co-founder of SingleStore, providing a fully managed PostgreSQL database with separation of storage and compute, enabling scale-to-zero pricing, instant database branching, and point-in-time recovery, designed to bring the developer experience of serverless platforms to PostgreSQL databases, backed by investors including Menlo Ventures and Microsoft. The separation of storage and compute architecture stores PostgreSQL data in a distributed, redundant storage layer decoupled from the compute layer, enabling the compute layer to scale up and down independently, with the ability to scale to zero when idle, automatically resume within milliseconds on the next query, and scale compute resources on demand without data migration or downtime, while the storage layer provides continuous automatic backups and point-in-time recovery. The branching feature creates copy-on-write database branches from any point in time, enabling developers to spin up full database copies for development, testing, preview environments, and schema migrations in seconds without copying data, with writes to a branch stored separately through copy-on-write. The serverless driver provides a WebSocket-based connection that works from serverless and edge environments including Vercel Edge Functions, Cloudflare Workers, and Deno Deploy, with connection pooling through PgBouncer. Full PostgreSQL compatibility with all standard features, extensions, drivers, and tools. PostGIS and pgvector support. Designed for serverless developers.