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Show HN: Restdb.io – a plug and play database service

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Looks interesting but I think a lot of developers will be leery of trusting their data to another Baas[1] or db-as-a-service because of shutdowns such as Parse.

To help alleviate fears of the service disappearing overnight, I'd suggest crafting an "About" page on restdb.io that talks about who the founders are, what the financial backing is, etc.

Open question: what's the prevailing sentiment out there? Would developers feel better about using a db-as-a-service from GoogleCompute/AmazonAWS/MSAzure because it would be one offering in their cloud portfolio that probably won't go away? Or do they find features of resdbi.io (e.g. Excel-like-data-as-a-service) very enticing and worth the risks?

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_backend_as_a_service

To answer your question, YES, I am leary of using startup BaaS offerings. I will either roll my own in Rails or using something from a public company.

However, I did not look at this service and immediately think of it as a mobile backend. To me, it looks more like a modern MS Access–a place where people graduate to from the spreadsheet world.

I feel like after the recent shuttering of other (D)BaaS services, I can't even consider another such service unless it's open source. One the flip side - what was that database that apple bought then closed sourced without warning?

> One the flip side - what was that database that apple bought then closed sourced without warning?

FoundationDB. And as far as I know some important bits of it were proprietary even before Apple bought them, it's just Apple removed everything related, stuff that was previously available like packages and docs.

Something isn't well thought-out here. The pricing? The usage?

$49 per month for one million records, one million calls over the API and only 20(!) sessions. I don't think there's a consumer or business app that I could build that would stay under the session and call limits.

Hi, we have made it more clear regarding sessions etc. Check out our updated pricing at https://restdb.io/pricing

We also have a custom plan when you need much higher scalability.

Such a thing already exists if you're ready to host your own DB:

http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1616/

http://labs.mysql.com/

That's as simple to find as googling "<db name> REST API"

from MySQL link: "They are NOT FIT FOR PRODUCTION."

See also (if you're happy working in Python): https://flask-restless.readthedocs.org/

There's also PostgREST https://github.com/begriffs/postgrest

On the one hand, these services are really cool. Especially for prototyping etc.

On the other hand, don't all "real apps" require some business logic in the backend? These are basically CRUD, right?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Create,_read,_update_and_delet...

Data storage as a service is getting really interesting. For storing data that needs a structured schema this is great. Although, I have to admit, it'd take a lot to drag me away from Firebase and its event based API (eg pushing updates to a connected user over a socket when things change).

This is a cool concept!

After attempting to upload a CSV or JSON file, I get: "Service unavailable."

On a positive note, the sign-up/onboarding process was a breeze. Will try again later.

Hi, we're really interested in the error you got when uploading a CSV or JSON.

Regards

jones@restdb.io

What differentiates it from Firebase?

Why is use this over a a local mongo db install?

What does it use underneath ?

Edit: mongodb

No joins like in MongoDB? upd: missed that it is usees mongodb. Sad but true.

Great service - using it for prototyping RESTful services!

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