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On top of that the docs say it's designed for per-user/tenant use cases, while they elsewhere say those use cases aren't ready yet.
Also, afaik they still have a 10,000 database limit on paid plans. Maybe you can get that lifted if you have a personal relationship with them, but even very low scale apps would quickly hit that.
IMO D1 (hosted SQLite in general) just seems like an interesting distraction. The per-tenant use-case has some pros; security being the biggest one. But I've basically never worked on an app where that boundary was so strict, across 100% of query use-cases, that I'd be willing to make such a critical infrastructure decision to support it. Even something as simple as a business analytics dashboard starts to break down that boundary, and would require replication of the data to another database (which is something many apps do anyway, but you can get a lot of mileage out of just directing BI queries at your normal database).
The second-best thing I can say about it is that it might have an interesting cost profile, but it seems like the situations where that would surface as an advantage is quite small. Mostly just low-scale, low-cost applications. Yeah, the total iterative cost of some low-utilization tenant might literally be $0; but assuming you have some money coming in, every other database can support this for an iterative cost of like $0.10, and you don't have to deal with all the downsides of D1 and SQLite.
We're going to see days when something goes wrong on Cloudflare's end and disrupts their whole CDN, and 2/3 the internet is going to break.
Still, at this point they're absolutely a net positive, and seem like a good steward. They even once replied to one of my e-mails saying "Based on what you've said about your use case, you should just use our free plan which you can sign up for on our website".
Connecting to Sqlite is different to MySQL and Postgres though and can feel a bit weird. If they want D1 to become a big platform something like makes a lot of sense.
Also, their Queues service seems to get stuck randomly, and I need to "flush" it manually from the dashboard.
But I hope they get better over time. Can't beat the ease of use and the pricing.