# What is a Neki router?

DevFeed: [What is a Neki router?](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/what-is-a-neki-router-2342.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://planetscale.com/blog/what-is-a-neki-router>)

Author: Ahmed Darwich

Published: 2026-09-01T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [Processes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/processes.md>)

Tags: [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [neki](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/neki.md>), [postgres](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgres.md>), [processes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/processes.md>), [scale](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scale.md>), [sql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sql.md>)

## AI overview

Neki routers sit between applications and Postgres, routing and coordinating queries across sharded database instances while handling client connections independently of Postgres backend processes.

## Source excerpt

A Neki router gives applications a Postgres connection to one database while planning and coordinating queries across the shards behind it.