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Re:Neon – Serverless Postgres by pid-1 on Saturday May 28, 2022 @08:57AM (#31539975)
Most stuff you mentioned:

1 - Is not an actual relational DB

2- Doesn't really scale to zero

Planetscale does scale to zero, but has a ridiculous billing model.

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Re:Neon – Serverless Postgres by manigandham on Saturday May 28, 2022 @02:23PM (#31542521)
Both CRDB and Planetscale "scale" to zero - but neither expose any concept of individual instances so I'm still not sure what difference it makes.
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Re:Neon – Serverless Postgres by acjohnson55 on Saturday May 28, 2022 @01:42PM (#31542216)
What's the billing model / how is it ridiculous?
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Re:Neon – Serverless Postgres by pid-1 on Saturday May 28, 2022 @04:03PM (#31543288)
Per row read / write billing -> how do you estimate that?
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Re:Neon – Serverless Postgres by derekperkins on Sunday June 05, 2022 @06:52PM (#31635591)
Either you have an existing db running and check the metrics, or you don't have a workload to move and you can just try it out from scratch. You can always migrate away if the billing model doesn't work for you.

Alternatively, it's likely that Planetscale will eventually provide a provisioned billing model, similar to DynamoDB. Then you can choose between scalable usage based pricing or less flexible flat rate pricing. Either way, innovating different billing models for RDBMS is a win.

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