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Crunchy Bridge vs Neon

Crunchy Bridge: Crunchy Data's developer-friendly managed Postgres across AWS, GCP and Azure, now owned by Snowflake. Neon: Serverless Postgres with copy-on-write branching and scale-to-zero, now part of Databricks.

key differences

  • Licensing: Crunchy Bridge is proprietary (Proprietary (managed service; engine is PostgreSQL License)); Neon is open source (permissive) (Apache License 2.0 (storage engine)).
  • Only Neon has compression, time travel, branching.
  • Neon has a serverless option; Crunchy Bridge does not.

choose crunchy-bridge for

  • +Production Postgres for teams wanting cloud choice
  • +PostGIS-heavy geospatial applications
  • +Querying data lakes in Iceberg from Postgres
  • +Teams that value hands-on Postgres expertise in support

best at · OLTP, Geo, Vector search

choose neon for

  • +Per-pull-request preview databases
  • +AI app builders and agents provisioning databases on demand
  • +SaaS with many small, mostly idle tenant databases
  • +Serverless and edge apps on Vercel or Cloudflare

best at · OLTP, Vector search, RAG

Crunchy BridgeCrunchy Data's developer-friendly managed Postgres across AWS, GCP and Azure, now owned by Snowflake.
NeonServerless Postgres with copy-on-write branching and scale-to-zero, now part of Databricks.
overview
Primary model
Relational
Relational
Also supports
Document, Spatial, Vector
Document, Vector, Spatial
Type
Managed service
Managed service
Status
Active
Active
Developer
Crunchy Data (Snowflake)
Databricks (Neon)
First release
2020
2022
Latest version
–
–
License
ProprietaryProprietary (managed service; engine is PostgreSQL License)
Open source (permissive)Apache License 2.0 (storage engine)
Free tier
—
✓
popularity
WhichDB Score
0.2
30.4
Rank
#665
#86
GitHub stars
–
23.3K
Stack Overflow questions
–
5
scale & guarantees
Comfortable data size
Medium (≤ 10 TB)
Medium (≤ 10 TB)
Horizontal scaling
None
None
Multi-region
Read replicas
None
ACID
Full
Full
Consistency
Strong
Strong
Schema
Strict
Strict
Architecture
Primary replica, Client server
Serverless, Shared storage, Primary replica
deployment
Self-hosted
—
—
Vendor-managed cloud
✓
✓
Serverless
—
✓
Embedded
—
—
Edge
—
—
Clouds
AWS, Google Cloud, Azure
AWS, Azure, Vercel
capabilities
Transactions
✓
✓
Joins
✓
✓
Secondary indexes
✓
✓
Full-text search
✓
✓
Vector search
✓
✓
Geospatial
✓
✓
JSON
✓
✓
Change data capture
✓
✓
Triggers
✓
✓
Stored procedures
✓
✓
Materialized views
✓
✓
TTL / expiry
—
—
Pub/Sub
✓
✓
Columnar storage
—
—
In-memory
—
—
Durable persistence
✓
✓
Compression
—
✓
Encryption at rest
✓
✓
Role-based access
✓
✓
Time travel
—
✓
Branching
—
✓
Online schema changes
—
—
Streaming ingest
—
—
Offline sync
—
—
Runs in WebAssembly
—
—
interfaces
Query languages
SQL, PL/pgSQL
SQL, PL/pgSQL
Client languages
Java, Python, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, C#, PHP, Rust
JavaScript, Python, Go, Java, Rust, Ruby, PHP, C#
Best for
OLTP, Geo, Vector search, Lakehouse
OLTP, Vector search, RAG, Content
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Crunchy Bridge vs Neon: FAQ

What is the difference between Crunchy Bridge and Neon?

Crunchy Bridge: Crunchy Data's developer-friendly managed Postgres across AWS, GCP and Azure, now owned by Snowflake. Neon: Serverless Postgres with copy-on-write branching and scale-to-zero, now part of Databricks. Licensing: Crunchy Bridge is proprietary (Proprietary (managed service; engine is PostgreSQL License)); Neon is open source (permissive) (Apache License 2.0 (storage engine)). Only Neon has compression, time travel, branching. Neon has a serverless option; Crunchy Bridge does not.

When should I choose Crunchy Bridge over Neon?

Choose Crunchy Bridge for production Postgres for teams wanting cloud choice, PostGIS-heavy geospatial applications and querying data lakes in Iceberg from Postgres. Choose Neon for per-pull-request preview databases; AI app builders and agents provisioning databases on demand; and SaaS with many small, mostly idle tenant databases.

Is Crunchy Bridge or Neon more popular?

Neon ranks #86 on the WhichDB Score (30.4/100) and Crunchy Bridge ranks #665 (0.2/100). Popularity is not fit: check the requirements that matter for your project.

Are Crunchy Bridge and Neon open source?

No. Crunchy Bridge is proprietary, closed-source software. Yes. Neon is open source. License: Apache License 2.0 (storage engine).