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Maybe now they will actually add a free tier so people can sign up for this, develop their product using a free tier, and upgrade when they launch, as is the na
by sam0x17 8y ago
Maybe now they will actually add a free tier so people can sign up for this, develop their product using a free tier, and upgrade when they launch, as is the natural progression with most other cloud products. I think before there were some complexity and/or financial issues preventing this but with Microsoft's wallet it shouldn't be an issue.
- aidos 8y agoThere’s a community version.
- sam0x17 8y agoThat doesn't really help. What I want is a seamless service I can just spin up an SQL server on with some cheap or free plan and tiny capacity, and then have it horizontally scale based on usage without me ever having to do or change anything, potentially to the point where it's dealing with terabytes and terabytes of data, thousands of connections, a large monthly bill, etc. Google's Cloud Spanner was supposed to be this, but the minimum monthly fee is $90ish which makes it impractical for anyone who doesn't want to waste money while developing. Citus has traditionally turned up its nose on HN at users who don't already have a massive database, but you gotta start somewhere, and the product is a lot better if you can stay in the same DB ecosystem from 0 users to 1,000,000 users and beyond. e.g. something like the free "tiny turtle" plan here: https://www.elephantsql.com/plans.html https://www.elephantsql.com/plans.html, but that can auto-scale up to citus-scale things, without user intervention, as needed.