Re:Select ’Hello, World’: Serverless Postgres Built for the ...
by mattashii on Thursday June 16, 2022 @03:02AM
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Suitable:
Anything with a write-based working set that fits in the buffers of the primary instance;
Databases that are unused most of the time;
Databases with a lot of read replicas (potentially with Neon only providing the read replicas, not the write node/hot standby);
Apps that want to run analytics on the data, but don't want to transfer O(datasize) data to a different DB every time, and also don't want to deal with the problems of long-running transactions.
Not very suitable:
OLTP with writeset that doesn't fit in the caches;
Anything with a write-based working set that fits in the buffers of the primary instance;
Databases that are unused most of the time;
Databases with a lot of read replicas (potentially with Neon only providing the read replicas, not the write node/hot standby);
Apps that want to run analytics on the data, but don't want to transfer O(datasize) data to a different DB every time, and also don't want to deal with the problems of long-running transactions.
Not very suitable:
OLTP with writeset that doesn't fit in the caches;
Databases that need <1ms commit latency.