cash_coleman

Great questions - first, we also run on Amazon's infrastructure. Our systems automatically scale based on our service configuration, and we (and Amazon) automatically back up your data in a redundant fashion so that you don't have to worry about it.

I think that's our messaging strategy overall, in fact. We're really trying to make it very easy for users to not have to think quite so much about which database we're using on the backend, and more about ClearDB as a product, because that's really what matters in this case.

Obviously with a startup, questions like these are going to be asked, and it makes perfect sense to ask them. We're still working out how best to convey trustworthiness in the eyes of more knowledgeable customers such as yourself. If you have any suggestions in that regard, we would love to hear them - in fact, if you would like to take this offline, feel free to email me any and all feedback that you may have to [email protected] :-)

Messaging updated. See http://www.cleardb.com/whatis.html for details.

Thanks for your response - we're always about good feedback!

First, a correction - it's ClearDB, not CloudDB.

We use a combination of MySQL and our specialized service platform to provide users with an instant means of getting up and running without having to deal with setting up and managing their own database solution.

Your software will run faster because, as your user-base grows, your data solution (us) automatically scales with that growth. No more need to find ways to scale your data solution. Less money, less fuss.

Saying that "we're all about money" is interesting, especially when you compare us to other cloud database providers, such as database.com, we are actually less expensive - by far - than they are. Further, you can sign up for free, get four times as much usage as they provide (just as an example) for free, and you get a staff of highly experienced database engineers behind you, 100%.

So, we solve the problem of scalability, cost, and time lost to trying to solve that problem yourself. In short, we save you money - lots of money.

Hopefully that addresses your questions :-)

I appreciate your response, but you know how it goes with startups. The moment it's not pushed as hard as it can go is the moment that the company begins its downward spiral. We are way too dedicated to let that happen with ClearDB.

As a compromise, I'll only post when we have new features from now on, but don't expect that to reduce the frequency of news coming from ClearDB. :-)

If you folks have any feedback that you'd like to pass on about CGL, we'd love to hear it.

We use a more secure model here at ClearDB to ensure that customers (and code) cannot accidentally mix between two different data sets. As such, we don't rely so much on meta programming at the business level. Food for thought though.

That's something that's definitely in the pipeline.

We just released (as in literally 5 hours ago) a competitor to database.com called ClearDB. Our solution is much simpler than theirs is and is priced much more attractively (starter accounts get 400K calls per month for free). We're actually looking for folks to check it out and give feedback. Would you folks mind having a look around? Check it out - www.cleardb.com.