robertjpayne 5 hours ago

Less than two months for any production users to migrate. Sounds like they've basically got no paying customers otherwise I'd expect to have seen a longer than 2 month period to migrate especially over the holiday season.

satvikpendem 6 hours 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 4 hours ago

    I 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 4 hours ago

      Gel is Postgres.

      • robertjpayne 4 hours ago

        I 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.

dddw 5 hours ago

Vergel

nmnmcc 5 hours ago

The darkest day in Python history.