Neon
by Neon (Databricks)
Serverless Postgres with branching and scale to zero
Neon is a serverless Postgres service that separates storage and compute, enabling autoscaling, scale to zero, and copy-on-write database branches. Neon is owned by Databricks, which acquired it in 2025. Its storage engine is published under Apache-2.0, though public repository activity has slowed since the acquisition.
Key features
- Database branching for previews and tests
- Autoscaling and scale to zero
- Standard Postgres connection strings
- CLI and REST API for automation
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