Launch HN: Fortress (YC S24) – Database platform for multi-tenant SaaS

Re:Launch HN: Fortress (YC S24) – Database platform for mult... by buremba on Monday September 02, 2024 @08:02PM (#41429839)

Do you support scaling to zero? I wonder if native offerings of cloud providers (Cloud SQL/Alloydb or Aurora) still make sense as keeping hundreds of PG instances at scale will likely be a challenge if you're managing them from your control plane.

Also, is there any compliance that requires it to be in different Postgresql servers? I assume most companies just use some sort of isolation (tenant_id column or dedicated tenant database/table) so I wonder if this problem could better be solved as a proxy layer.

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Re:Launch HN: Fortress (YC S24) – Database platform for mult... by willothy on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @02:03PM (#41437434)

We support scaling to near-zero because of Aurora serverless, but we definitely are looking into other solutions that could be cheaper to run or self-hosted.

Some regional regulations (GDPR, etc.) require local and/or isolated hosting. Most companies indeed solve this with either a tenant id column, dedicated tenant databases or both. We want to simplify those architectures, and a proxy layer is exactly our idea there - we're working on a solution that handles connection pooling and routing to remove the need to cache connections on the client.

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