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All of the comments here that talk about price are saying how cheap Compose is. Really? Looks like they charge $12 per gigabyte per month for PostgreSQL, $18 fo

All of the comments here that talk about price are saying how cheap Compose is. Really? Looks like they charge $12 per gigabyte per month for PostgreSQL, $18 for Mongo, and there's absolutely no free/hobbyist tier. That seems pretty expensive to me, at least compared to the other IBM cloud DBaaS offering, Cloudant, which is priced at $1 per gigabyte per month and is completely free if your bill is less than $50/month. Cloudant charges for transactions (gets and puts), while it looks to me like Compose doesn't, but based on my (admittedly limited) experience with Cloudant that wouldn't do very much to close the yawning gap for most applications. Would someone from Compose care to explain why their pricing isn't really 12X or 18X greater than Cloudant? (And whose pricing is going to change? I'm kind of worried that IBM is going to quadruple Cloudant's prices, and then quadruple them again, to bring them into line with Compose.)

akhilcacharya 11y ago
Back when I used Compose/MongoHQ exclusively for my sideprojects, they had a very generous free tier. They only recently switched to stop being generous (which is completely understandable).
mrkurt 11y ago
Cloudant's pricing is so different than ours it's hard to compare. Our DBs are all (currently) intended to be used real time, which means they could be handling several thousand requests per second. I would guess that Cloudant's pricing is similar to ours for DBs under load. Theirs just scales down in a way we can't currently. Cloudant's actually going to be really nice for our customers. Since our service and pricing are meant for transactional databases, we've lost customers and potential customers who had mountains of cold data they needed to keep somewhere. As an independent company, that was the right choice, as part of IBM we now have a good answer for those types of data loads. We hope to be able to use our Transporter feature to make it relatively easy to keep data moving around between DBs, Cloudant included.

akhilcacharya 11y ago

Back when I used Compose/MongoHQ exclusively for my sideprojects, they had a very generous free tier. They only recently switched to stop being generous (which is completely understandable).

mrkurt 11y ago

Cloudant's pricing is so different than ours it's hard to compare. Our DBs are all (currently) intended to be used real time, which means they could be handling several thousand requests per second. I would guess that Cloudant's pricing is similar to ours for DBs under load. Theirs just scales down in a way we can't currently. Cloudant's actually going to be really nice for our customers. Since our service and pricing are meant for transactional databases, we've lost customers and potential customers who had mountains of cold data they needed to keep somewhere. As an independent company, that was the right choice, as part of IBM we now have a good answer for those types of data loads. We hope to be able to use our Transporter feature to make it relatively easy to keep data moving around between DBs, Cloudant included.