TLDR
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Neon’s lakebase architecture eliminates Postgres Full Page Writes by pushing image generation to distributed storage, achieving 4.5x write throughput gains and 94% WAL reduction.
Key Takeaways
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Disabling FPW on stateless compute removes torn-page risk; a Paxos-based safekeeper quorum replaces local disk durability.
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Image generation pushdown to the pageserver keeps delta chains bounded, preserving read performance without compute-side full page images.
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32 vCPU benchmark: 95k to 439k NOPM (4.5x); average WAL per transaction drops from 58KB to under 4KB.
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Production 56 vCPU instance: steady-state WAL fell from 30 MB/s to 1 MB/s; p99 read latency down 30-50%.
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Synced Tables customer saw row ingestion jump from 17k to 62k rows/sec (3x) after enabling image pushdown.
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Notable Comments
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@nikita: Databricks VP and former Neon CEO, offering to answer performance or architecture questions directly.
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