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Is there really that much money in databases as a service ? Setting up mongo for me is a one step process yum install mongod-server && service start mongod

by dkhenry 14y ago

il 14y ago
Since MongoHQ is profitable, empirically, yes.
SeanOC 14y ago
There's a lot more to running a production database than simply installing the software. At a minimum you have monitoring, tuning, backups, failover/replication, and security. These and more are all tasks that some people look to outsource as it is outside of their core competency/business (for better or worse).
kevinwuhoo 14y ago
Amazon Web Services itself has three distinct services [1] for database as a service: SDB (2007), RDS (2009), and DynamoDB (2012). If there wasn't demand or money in it, I'm sure they would have stopped at their first, simplest iteration. [1]: http://aws.amazon.com/running_databases/ http://aws.amazon.com/running_databases/
adambard 14y ago
This is why their plan for small databases is free. The pain comes as your data grows.
harrylove 14y ago
Many years ago, people asked the same questions about food, clothing, shelter, farming, weapons, mining, steel, oil, gas, electricity, sewer systems, telephone networks, radio, television, and the internet. Everything is a service waiting to happen.
- dkhenry 14y ago
  Procreation ?
  - bmelton 14y ago
    Between prostitution, surrogates for pay and adoption agencies, I'd say that most aspects of procreation are already "as a service" in practice.
bmelton 14y ago
The over-simplistic response to that argument is that setting up a website is as simple as 'sudo apt-get install nginx && service start nginx', which delivers in principle -- now you have a website. In practice, we all know there's much more involved. With some of the more spectacular failures we've seen as a result of Mongo (I'm specifically thinking of FourSquare's downtimes), I think that their offering is quite timely and useful. We're currently mulling over the options between switching our local Mongo installs to either MongoHQ or engaging 10Gen support to manage it for us. Both are significantly cheaper than hiring a dedicated person to manage it.

Is there really that much money in databases as a service ? Setting up mongo for me is a one step process yum install mongod-server && service start mongod

by dkhenry 14y ago

Is there really that much money in databases as a service ? Setting up mongo for me is a one step process yum install mongod-server && service start mongod

il 14y ago

Since MongoHQ is profitable, empirically, yes.

SeanOC 14y ago

There's a lot more to running a production database than simply installing the software. At a minimum you have monitoring, tuning, backups, failover/replication, and security. These and more are all tasks that some people look to outsource as it is outside of their core competency/business (for better or worse).

kevinwuhoo 14y ago

Amazon Web Services itself has three distinct services [1] for database as a service: SDB (2007), RDS (2009), and DynamoDB (2012). If there wasn't demand or money in it, I'm sure they would have stopped at their first, simplest iteration. [1]: http://aws.amazon.com/running_databases/ http://aws.amazon.com/running_databases/

adambard 14y ago

This is why their plan for small databases is free. The pain comes as your data grows.

harrylove 14y ago

Many years ago, people asked the same questions about food, clothing, shelter, farming, weapons, mining, steel, oil, gas, electricity, sewer systems, telephone networks, radio, television, and the internet. Everything is a service waiting to happen.

dkhenry 14y ago
Procreation ?
- bmelton 14y ago
  Between prostitution, surrogates for pay and adoption agencies, I'd say that most aspects of procreation are already "as a service" in practice.

bmelton 14y ago

The over-simplistic response to that argument is that setting up a website is as simple as 'sudo apt-get install nginx && service start nginx', which delivers in principle -- now you have a website. In practice, we all know there's much more involved. With some of the more spectacular failures we've seen as a result of Mongo (I'm specifically thinking of FourSquare's downtimes), I think that their offering is quite timely and useful. We're currently mulling over the options between switching our local Mongo installs to either MongoHQ or engaging 10Gen support to manage it for us. Both are significantly cheaper than hiring a dedicated person to manage it.