PlanetScale is now generally available

Re:PlanetScale is now generally available by mbesto on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @10:16AM (#29241441)

I'm curious about what kind of workloads people would be using a serverless DB for?

If I understand it correctly, let's say my DB is only being used to process 1M transactions from 9am-1pm, I'm basically only paying for the load during that time, versus a managed DB where it's being paid to be on 24/7. With most serverless there is a penalty though - cold startup.

So is it purely an economic play for esoteric DB workloads? If my DB is realistically going to be churning for 24/7 anyway, why would I ever use serverless DBs?

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Re:PlanetScale is now generally available by spelunker on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @10:43AM (#29241767)

Lower operational burden - if you're using a serverless db maintaining servers is one less thing to think about. Same with any infrastructure - you don't have to worry about orchestration, load balancing, authentication, etc.

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Re:PlanetScale is now generally available by mbesto on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @11:20AM (#29242331)

I mean, I can essentially do this with any PaaS DB, no? RDS, Azure SQL, Cosmos, etc.

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