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Neon

by Neon (Databricks)

Serverless Postgres with branching and scale to zero

Visit neon.com FreemiumOpen source

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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