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Big parts of the article are pretty generic concepts and only mention other products as an example. Haven't heard of Neon yet. What does Neon do differently? Is there a good introduction/overview?

Good, fair and reproducible benchmarks are a rarity. Do you have any (independent) benchmarks that compare different distributed PostgreSQL-based solutions?

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Here is a blog post that should be a good dive into the Neon storage engine. I work at Neon, and am happy to answer any other questions you might have.

https://neon.tech/blog/get-page-at-lsn

All benchmarks are biased because nobody does the same level of config tuning on different databases. But this GigaOm/Microsoft one is a joke. They run Citus with no replication on 12x16+1x32 vCores and the others on 14x16 vCPU (so 14x8 cores) with replication factor 3.

Without good benchmarks it's hardly possible to compare different products.

But I agree that this benchmarks seems questionable at best then. I usually only work with on-premise deployments, so I don't know the details of all the cloud offerings. People will probably judge products on what is available on the first few search results though.

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