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Why would this give you pause? You just don't want the data to be where Databricks is?

Either way, there are plenty of other serverless Postgres options out there, Supabase being one of the most popular.

Can’t speak for anyone but myself and my experience anecdotally, having used Databricks: I consider them to be the Oracle of the modern era. Under no circumstances would I let them get their hooks into any company I have the power from preventing it.

This is exactly how I feel. I do not want to be in the Databricks ecosystem.

Why do think so? Databricks notebook product I have used in couple of companies is pretty solid. I have done any google research but they are generally known to be very high talent dense kind of place to work.

You and the parent are not talking about the same things.

Supabase, while a great product, does not offer serverless Postgress.

What would you say they offer then if not serverless Postgres?

You set up a database, you connect to it, they take care of the rest. It even scales to $0 if you don't use it.

Is that not serverless Postgres?

Serverless in the context of Postgres means to decouple storage and compute, so you could scale compute "infinitely" without setting up replica servers. This is what Neon offers, where you can just keep hitting their endpoints with your pg client and it should just take whatever load (in principle) and bill you per request.

Supabase gives you a server that runs classic Postgres in a process. Scaling in this scenario means you increase your server's capacity, with a potential downtime while the upgrade is happening.

You are confusing _managed_ Postgres for _serverless_.

Others in the serverless Postgres space:

- https://www.orioledb.com/ (pg extension)

- https://www.thenile.dev/ (pg "distribution")

- https://www.yugabyte.com/ (not emphasizing serverless but their architecture would allow for it)

https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-acquires-oriole

Interesting. Maybe a new product line will come out of this.

That's postgre on their server.

Yes, serverless doesn’t mean no servers.

How is what Supabase offers different from what Neon offers from a user perspective?

Exactly how EC2 is different from Lambda from a user's perspective.

> Why would this give you pause?

After a funding round the value extraction from customers is just over the horizon

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