Ask HN: Cheapest hosted database options for 1M read & writes per day?

4 pointsjerrygoyal2 comments

Building a tool for free users so don't want to spend bucks on database. Looking for a hosted database with generous free tier for read/write ops.

I should mention that read and write operations are expected to surpass 1M/day.. Firestore is a no-go (expensive).

If there's no NoSQL option available I could also look into SQL DB given it's hosted.

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MongoDB Atlas is a nice option. Not free but quite cheap for smaller scale. Also check out Supabase and Render - not NoSQL but generous free tiers.

Supabase developer here: keep in mind that, while PostgreSQL is unapologetically SQL-based, it's support for JSON and JSONB fields give it a lot of the powers of NoSQL. These days the lines are becoming more blurred.

Here's an article I wrote with a basic introduction to the NoSQL features of PostgreSQL: https://supabase.com/blog/sql-or-nosql-both-with-postgresql

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