We are using Firecracker and unikernals to deliver true scale-to-zero without cold-starts. Happy to go into more detail if anyone is interested.
Nile (thenile.dev).
Not affiliated in any way with Nile, just a happy user.
I find their pricing much easier to reason about and plan, something I found super cluttered and hard to reason about on your pricing page.
Competition in the serverless Postgres space is always welcome from a customer perspective, but my gripe is currently a) bundling with Prisma - I might not want to use your tool and b) cluttered pricing.
The point re: pricing explanation is well taken. We've already done a revision and will work on another one as we get more feedback on the latest version.
In any case: Best of success in bringing this to GA, it’s great you’re among teams working on making this accessible!
That said, do you plan do offer branching or any other features that Neon offer? I think that's their big selling point along with separate billing for compute and storage.
I’m a bit confused about the pricing.
The docs and pricing pages on your website don’t seem to outline how the pay-as-you-go pricing will work.
Is this still being figured out?
Take a look at the Accelerate and Pulse pricing details. Prisma Postgres comes bundled with these, so the pay-as-you-go pricing is the same: https://www.prisma.io/pricing#accelerate
We'll continue to make improvements to the pricing on the way to General Availability to make it both as easy to understand and affordable as possible.
- Each incremental concurrent query allocates additional compute resource to your database - All queries share that pool of compute resource - Queries have strict timeout limits. 10 seconds on most plans configurable up to 60 seconds.
Prisma Postgres is designed to serve interactive applications with users waiting for a response. In a sense, we are adopting some of the design principles underlying DynamoDB (strict limits on queries) and combining it with the flexibility of a Postgres database that is fully yours to configure and use as you see fit.
Companies, especially smaller ones starting out, will run analytics in the same DB as the application DB.
A major plus of using a Postgres DB is the flexibility of doing analytics and serving apps. It can do it all. Analytics queries will often easily exceed your timeout limits.
However, when we release Prisma Postgres in GA (couple of months), you will be able to upgrade your postgres instance (CPU, storage, etc.) and that will be db-specific cost.