The Changelog · Tuesday, August 25, 2026
PlanetScale has entered the Postgres world with its sharded Postgres product, Niki, which is set to launch soon and is already being adopted by customers. The company also noted that its existing platform continues to grow and now hosts some of the world's largest databases, particularly for AI companies.
“We have announced our sharded Postgres product, Niki, which is coming very soon, and is already ramping up with customers.”
“And Test keeps growing and hosts now some of the world's largest databases. We run very, very large sharded workloads for tons of very large AI companies.”