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Gel Joins Vercel

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18 pointsjakubmazanec12 comments

I was hoping they will undermine all ORMs (and their associated frameworks) and make advanced queries accessible to everybody.

I'm really sorry to hear this. Gel really was an interesting product, and I really liked the idea that queries returned structs linked to other structs via properties, instead of rows like in SQL.

I hope some other group picks up the product. It's open-source, so anyone could adopt it.

Less than two months for any production users to migrate. Sounds like they've basically got no paying customers otherwise I'd expect to have seen a longer than 2 month period to migrate especially over the holiday season.

"The investment they're making in the ecosystem is rooted in a $$$ genuine $$$ commitment to the community. We’re grateful to Vercel for giving us the resources and reach to keep doing what we love at a much larger scale."

There, fixed it for you.

I liked their product. They seemed to run out of funding in the last year though, and the founders lost steam.

I guess database as a service is not as bullet proof of a business model as one thinks, same sort of acquisition happened with Neon.

I think the problem is it's too risky to utilise a "new" database today that isn't available as a managed option on many platforms.

Neon is just Postgres for the most part -- sure if they shut down it'd be a pain to migrate but you'd mostly be fine just swapping to AWS RDS/Aurora or the plethora of other Postgres providers.

Buying into things like Gel or now defunct RethinkDB mean if the primary company went under you're stuck with a dead DB engine and potentially no managed hosting options.

Gel is Postgres.

I mean sorta? It's value add over something like Aurora or RDS has been it's SDL and EdgeQL layer which makes it a hard pill to swallow not knowing if it's going to go under and you're stuck trying to maintain that yourself or migrate off of it.

Not sorta, quite literally. You can start a Postgres instance and point gel-server at it.

By default, it does start a managed Postgres because that's more convenient, but you can point it to Aurora or RDS or any other pg deployment.

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