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“Pay for only what you use” database.
by pm90 5y ago
“Pay for only what you use” database.
- freen 5y agoScales up and down automatically.
- mbesto 5y agoI'm curious about what kind of workloads people would be using a serverless DB for? If I understand it correctly, let's say my DB is only being used to process 1M transactions from 9am-1pm, I'm basically only paying for the load during that time, versus a managed DB where it's being paid to be on 24/7. With most serverless there is a penalty though - cold startup. So is it purely an economic play for esoteric DB workloads? If my DB is realistically going to be churning for 24/7 anyway, why would I ever use serverless DBs?
- spelunker 5y agoLower operational burden - if you're using a serverless db maintaining servers is one less thing to think about. Same with any infrastructure - you don't have to worry about orchestration, load balancing, authentication, etc.
- mbesto 5y agoI mean, I can essentially do this with any PaaS DB, no? RDS, Azure SQL, Cosmos, etc.