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The lack of useable backups in the open-source version is confounding to me. They are effectively limiting adoption of both their free and paid version. If the

The lack of useable backups in the open-source version is confounding to me. They are effectively limiting adoption of both their free and paid version. If they would have proper backups in free, more people would start using it, and then discover that they’ll need some of the premium features (data locality, Role-Based Access Control or follower reads). Also, why is there no public pricing page? How will I know that pricing won’t change every year? Or be arbitrary based on how much they can squeeze us? (less likely with public, listed prices) Why would a company with low marginal cost (software) limit their growth like this?

irfansharif 7y ago
CockroachCloud has public pricing. https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/cockroachcloud/stable/cockroachcloud-create-your-cluster.html#step-2-select-the-cloud-provider https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/cockroachcloud/stable/coc...
- PudgePacket 7y ago
  Still seems quite hidden compared to the usual https://sas.io/pricing https://sas.io/pricing
StavrosK 7y ago
This is a problem with Postgres as well (for different reasons). I currently have a server sitting without proper DB backups (only full backups and dumps) because figuring out how Wall-E (or whatever the latest tool is) works is more effort than "here's my bucket and encryption key, please start backing everything up".
- latch 7y ago
  FWIW, I've had a lot of success with barman (1). If you set it up using the newer streaming protocol, which doesn't require a separate ssh channel, then it's relatively straightforward to setup. https://www.pgbarman.org/ https://www.pgbarman.org/
- candiddevmike 7y ago
  WAL archiving is really helpful for (any) point in time restores and backing up large databases. If neither of those apply, pgdump is great! Also WAL-E has been replaced by WAL-G (written in Go): https://github.com/wal-g/wal-g https://github.com/wal-g/wal-g

irfansharif 7y ago

CockroachCloud has public pricing. https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/cockroachcloud/stable/cockroachcloud-create-your-cluster.html#step-2-select-the-cloud-provider https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/cockroachcloud/stable/coc...

PudgePacket 7y ago
Still seems quite hidden compared to the usual https://sas.io/pricing https://sas.io/pricing

StavrosK 7y ago

This is a problem with Postgres as well (for different reasons). I currently have a server sitting without proper DB backups (only full backups and dumps) because figuring out how Wall-E (or whatever the latest tool is) works is more effort than "here's my bucket and encryption key, please start backing everything up".

latch 7y ago
FWIW, I've had a lot of success with barman (1). If you set it up using the newer streaming protocol, which doesn't require a separate ssh channel, then it's relatively straightforward to setup. https://www.pgbarman.org/ https://www.pgbarman.org/
candiddevmike 7y ago
WAL archiving is really helpful for (any) point in time restores and backing up large databases. If neither of those apply, pgdump is great! Also WAL-E has been replaced by WAL-G (written in Go): https://github.com/wal-g/wal-g https://github.com/wal-g/wal-g