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I guess database as a service is not as bullet proof of a business model as one thinks, same sort of acquisition happened with Neon.
by satvikpendem 11mo ago
I 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.