Serverless Postgres
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serverless postgres
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3 positive, 17 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 8 critical, out of 28 comments about the project. Thread score -0.12.
Idea: 3 for, 5 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Nifty idea conceptually
From 1 comment
This seems more like "PostgreSQL using remote storage for the database" rather than "Serverless"? It seems like it still needs memory/cpu resources locally (sized properly) to…
justinclift on HN
Good for infrequent access and cheap database-per-tenant
From 1 comment
In addition to infrequent access type use-cases, the ability to trivially create new DBs without incurring significant costs is the killer feature. This makes it feasible to…
AgharaShyam on HN
Objections
Not truly serverless by common definition
From 2 comments
> I guess the term “Serverless” is pretty ambiguous, (...) I don't this is the case though. The core principle of serverless computing is that a cloud provider supplies a managed…
chipdart on HNI use Fly.io, it’s not serverless at all, it’s a PaaS that manages your servers for you via its own automations and cli. Fly also already supports postgres (I use this too) so…
davedx on HN
Risk of large egress bills on AWS
From 1 comment
This seems more like "PostgreSQL using remote storage for the database" rather than "Serverless"? It seems like it still needs memory/cpu resources locally (sized properly) to…
justinclift on HN
Single node only; not horizontally scalable
From 1 comment
Neon has a consensus cluster of >=3 WAL storage servers using local storage that is not scale-to-zero. Only with multitenancy can you amortize it to scale-down-to-not-much. It's…
yencabulator on HN
Questions
How does it compare to Neon?
From 1 comment
How does this compare to Neon[1], Crunchy PostgreSQL for Kubernetes[2], and Citus[3]? [1] https://neon.tech / https://github.com/neondatabase/neon [2]…
sea-gold on HN
Can it run on AWS Lambda?
From 1 comment
Can this run on AWS Lambda with a EBS Blockstore? Mentally this is the cheapest w/o all those egress costs, but I'm not sure. Combine that with we don't like managing resources…
irjustin on HN
Alternatives named
Neon
From 2 comments
How does this compare to Neon[1], Crunchy PostgreSQL for Kubernetes[2], and Citus[3]? [1] https://neon.tech / https://github.com/neondatabase/neon [2]…
sea-gold on HNI think the only relevant comparison here is Neon.
paulddraper on HN
Crunchy Postgres for Kubernetes
From 1 comment
How does this compare to Neon[1], Crunchy PostgreSQL for Kubernetes[2], and Citus[3]? [1] https://neon.tech / https://github.com/neondatabase/neon [2]…
sea-gold on HN
Citus
From 1 comment
How does this compare to Neon[1], Crunchy PostgreSQL for Kubernetes[2], and Citus[3]? [1] https://neon.tech / https://github.com/neondatabase/neon [2]…
sea-gold on HN
PGlite
From 1 comment
check pglite project: https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite
avinassh on HN