What you get when you think of Postgres storage as a transaction journal

Neon is an innovative relational database that reimagines Postgres storage as a transaction journal, prioritizing the development workflow over mere data storage. By conceptualizing the database storage as an event timeline rather than a static entity, Neon enables developers to modify their data more agilely and safely. The core building block of this approach is Postgres WAL (Write-Ahead Log), which logs all transactions and database modifications before applying them to the primary data files. This allows Neon to add new features to Postgres that improve the development experience, such as database branching with data and schema, instant PITR, ephemeral read replicas, and time travel queries.