Comment by robertjpayne

Comment by robertjpayne 17 hours ago

I think the problem is it's too risky to utilise a "new" database today that isn't available as a managed option on many platforms.

Neon is just Postgres for the most part -- sure if they shut down it'd be a pain to migrate but you'd mostly be fine just swapping to AWS RDS/Aurora or the plethora of other Postgres providers.

Buying into things like Gel or now defunct RethinkDB mean if the primary company went under you're stuck with a dead DB engine and potentially no managed hosting options.

satvikpendem 17 hours ago

Gel is Postgres.

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robertjpayne 16 hours ago

I mean sorta? It's value add over something like Aurora or RDS has been it's SDL and EdgeQL layer which makes it a hard pill to swallow not knowing if it's going to go under and you're stuck trying to maintain that yourself or migrate off of it.

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- aerzen 8 hours ago
  
  Not sorta, quite literally. You can start a Postgres instance and point gel-server at it.
  By default, it does start a managed Postgres because that's more convenient, but you can point it to Aurora or RDS or any other pg deployment.
  
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