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ZenQuery: Enterprise Backend as a Service

5 points by BjoernKW 13y ago

stirno 13y ago
The domain name is bound to be confusing to potential customers. The stored/versioned queries and views discussed - are these essentially just views or stored procedures?
- BjoernKW 13y ago
  Thanks for the feedback. The domain name is intended as a play on the commonly used 'qry_' prefix but you're right this could be confusing. The versioned queries are currently implemented as views. ZenQuery will also have a 'snapshot' feature soon that'll allow you to store query results as materialized views.
finnh 13y ago
If it's "entirely hosted on premise" ... how is it "as a service"? This sounds snarky, but it's not. From reading the site my understanding is that your code is an appserver that I deploy on my hardware, sitting in front of my DB & providing rest-based API access to it. When I hear "Enterprise Backend as a Service", I understand that to mean something more like FireBase.
- BjoernKW 13y ago
  That's exactly the idea behind ZenQuery. It's FireBase / Parse but for your own in-house database servers. I understand that the phrases "as a service" and "on premise" might be conflicting, though. I'll think about how to express this more clearly. Thanks for your feedback.
  - finnh 13y ago
    Sure! This is actually something I could use - I have a few different half-baked API endpoints in front of my DB. Before I would provide my email addr, though, I would need to know more: 1. closed or open source? 2. free or paid / how paid? funny - I had literally this exact same idea in 2001 when I was considering what the next company I started was going to do. Back then it was XML in both directions, though. I'm pretty sure it would have failed back then, but the world is a different place today - best of luck!
    - BjoernKW 13y ago
      Thanks a lot. To answer your questions: 1. The code will be open source in some way. Paying customers will definitely get the source code. 2. I haven't figured out an exact model yet. There'll likely be a free version (with limited features / RDBMS options / concurrent connections) alongside paid tiers with more additional features.
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spectralnischay 13y ago
Is starting your company with 'Zen' the new startup fad?

5 points by BjoernKW 13y ago

The domain name is bound to be confusing to potential customers. The stored/versioned queries and views discussed - are these essentially just views or stored procedures?

BjoernKW 13y ago
Thanks for the feedback. The domain name is intended as a play on the commonly used 'qry_' prefix but you're right this could be confusing. The versioned queries are currently implemented as views. ZenQuery will also have a 'snapshot' feature soon that'll allow you to store query results as materialized views.

finnh 13y ago

If it's "entirely hosted on premise" ... how is it "as a service"? This sounds snarky, but it's not. From reading the site my understanding is that your code is an appserver that I deploy on my hardware, sitting in front of my DB & providing rest-based API access to it. When I hear "Enterprise Backend as a Service", I understand that to mean something more like FireBase.

BjoernKW 13y ago
That's exactly the idea behind ZenQuery. It's FireBase / Parse but for your own in-house database servers. I understand that the phrases "as a service" and "on premise" might be conflicting, though. I'll think about how to express this more clearly. Thanks for your feedback.
- finnh 13y ago
  Sure! This is actually something I could use - I have a few different half-baked API endpoints in front of my DB. Before I would provide my email addr, though, I would need to know more: 1. closed or open source? 2. free or paid / how paid? funny - I had literally this exact same idea in 2001 when I was considering what the next company I started was going to do. Back then it was XML in both directions, though. I'm pretty sure it would have failed back then, but the world is a different place today - best of luck!
  - BjoernKW 13y ago
    Thanks a lot. To answer your questions: 1. The code will be open source in some way. Paying customers will definitely get the source code. 2. I haven't figured out an exact model yet. There'll likely be a free version (with limited features / RDBMS options / concurrent connections) alongside paid tiers with more additional features.
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spectralnischay 13y ago

Is starting your company with 'Zen' the new startup fad?