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Hosted db is the way to go. Just as a perspective - this is 2017. How many multi-AZ, failover tolerant, hosted postgresql offerings do you know of? RDS, Her
by sandGorgon 10y ago
Hosted db is the way to go. Just as a perspective - this is 2017. How many multi-AZ, failover tolerant, hosted postgresql offerings do you know of?
RDS, Heroku and Compose. Google and Azure still dont do hosted postgres.
So many people pay for Dynamodb. You could be an alternative.
The point is - rethinkdb still exists. you could still do it. via preorders on Kickstarter.
- jpalomaki 10y agoIt's much lower barrier to buy managed database service from Amazon or Microsoft than from a start-up. They have the credibility. You don't question if these companies really have the people to keep the stuff running. In many cases the customers also already have a billing relationship with them. Much less friction to just add one new service to the already quite big invoice vs buying from a different company. Competing with AWS or Google is hard, they would be still making money on the infra even if they gave the managed database out for free.
- sandGorgon 10y agocompose is a startup. heroku was a startup when they started. in fact, if I have my timeline right then heroku managed postgres preceded RDS (http://www.zdnet.com/article/heroku-launches-cloud-postgres-database/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/heroku-launches-cloud-postgres-... - 2011 versus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Relational_Database_Service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Relational_Database_Ser... - 2013) Rethinkdb is an incredible architecture. If I was in the market for something like rethinkdb/dynamodb, I would completely go with something that is built by the original inventors. Just like docker for example.
- Artemis2 10y agoHeroku was acquired by Salesforce in 2010, Compose by IBM in 2015 though.