# 118 million queries per second on Neki

DevFeed: [118 million queries per second on Neki](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/118-million-queries-per-second-on-neki-2320.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://planetscale.com/blog/118-million-queries-per-second-on-neki>)

Author: Hirad Pourtahmasbi

Published: 2026-09-11T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Blog -- PlanetScale](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-planetscale.md>)

Topics: [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>), [benchmarking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/benchmarking.md>), [Latency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/latency.md>)

Tags: [benchmark](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/benchmark.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [errors](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/errors.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [neki](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/neki.md>), [postgres](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgres.md>)

## AI overview

The article reports a Neki benchmark that sustained 118 million queries per second across 512 primary-only Postgres shards holding 1.22 PiB of data. The read-only, single-shard point-select workload ran for 16 minutes, with reported router and client p99 latency plus fleet IOPS, network throughput, and error rate.

## Source excerpt

We ran a massive, sharded Postgres database at 118.5 million queries per second, with 200k queries per second on each shard across 512 shards.