118M Queries per Second on Neki
118 million queries per second on NekiFlorent Poinsard, Hirad Pourtahmasbi | September 11, 2026We released Neki in platform preview yesterday. To celebrate the release, we wanted to test out running 1 million queries per second on Neki. We hit this goal pretty quickly on 5 shards and decided to see how much further we could push it.This next run ended with 512 shards running 118 million queries per second with 1.22 PiB of data.Linear scalabilityThe benchmark was very simple.
- ▪118 million queries per second on NekiFlorent Poinsard, Hirad Pourtahmasbi | September 11, 2026We released Neki in platform preview yesterday.
- ▪To celebrate the release, we wanted to test out running 1 million queries per second on Neki.
- ▪We hit this goal pretty quickly on 5 shards and decided to see how much further we could push it.This next run ended with 512 shards running 118 million queries per second with 1.22 PiB of data.Linear scalabilityThe benchmark was very simpl
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118 million queries per second on NekiFlorent Poinsard, Hirad Pourtahmasbi | September 11, 2026We released Neki in platform preview yesterday. To celebrate the release, we wanted to test out running 1 million queries per second on Neki. We hit this goal pretty quickly on 5 shards and decided to see how much further we could push it.This next run ended with 512 shards running 118 million queries per second with 1.22 PiB of data.Linear scalabilityThe benchmark was very simple. A single-shard point select, one row fetched per-query by primary key. No writes, joins, or cross-shard queries.
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