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Gel Joins Vercel
- satvikpendem 11mo agoI guess database as a service is not as bullet proof of a business model as one thinks, same sort of acquisition happened with Neon.
- robertjpayne 11mo agoI think the problem is it's too risky to utilise a "new" database today that isn't available as a managed option on many platforms. Neon is just Postgres for the most part -- sure if they shut down it'd be a pain to migrate but you'd mostly be fine just swapping to AWS RDS/Aurora or the plethora of other Postgres providers. Buying into things like Gel or now defunct RethinkDB mean if the primary company went under you're stuck with a dead DB engine and potentially no managed hosting options.
- satvikpendem 11mo agoGel is Postgres.
- robertjpayne 11mo agoI mean sorta? It's value add over something like Aurora or RDS has been it's SDL and EdgeQL layer which makes it a hard pill to swallow not knowing if it's going to go under and you're stuck trying to maintain that yourself or migrate off of it.
- aerzen 11mo agoNot sorta, quite literally. You can start a Postgres instance and point gel-server at it. By default, it does start a managed Postgres because that's more convenient, but you can point it to Aurora or RDS or any other pg deployment.
- dddw 11mo agoVergel
- nmnmcc 11mo agoThe darkest day in Python history.
- robertjpayne 11mo agoLess than two months for any production users to migrate. Sounds like they've basically got no paying customers otherwise I'd expect to have seen a longer than 2 month period to migrate especially over the holiday season.
- aitchnyu 11mo agoI was hoping they will undermine all ORMs (and their associated frameworks) and make advanced queries accessible to everybody.
- untruepeanuts 11mo ago"The investment they're making in the ecosystem is rooted in a $$$ genuine $$$ commitment to the community. We’re grateful to Vercel for giving us the resources and reach to keep doing what we love at a much larger scale." There, fixed it for you.
- Taikonerd 11mo agoI'm really sorry to hear this. Gel really was an interesting product, and I really liked the idea that queries returned structs linked to other structs via properties, instead of rows like in SQL. I hope some other group picks up the product. It's open-source, so anyone could adopt it.
- drewbitt 11mo agoI liked their product. They seemed to run out of funding in the last year though, and the founders lost steam.