Ask HN: mySQL as a Service

5 points·mattjung··10 comments

I couldn't find any offer for a SQL based database as a service. Register, get access to your (virtual) DB server and plug-in your web-application. Plus DoS protection, auto-scaling, ... Why doesn't exist such a service?

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Is running your mySQL at AWS good enough?

have a look at here: http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?ex...

you get all what you have asked for and even more ;-)

What about Amazon's SimpleDB service?http://aws.amazon.com/simpledb/

Wasn't there a YC startup which offered this?

EDIT: Yes - http://fathomdb.com/about/home

thanks, that's exactly the service i thought of...

It does exist - we at FathomDB offer a SQL based database as a service, and have a bunch of customers happily (if quietly) using us!

Speed? Doing db calls over the net doesn't seem too efficient.

http://www.rackspacecloud.com/cloud_hosting_products/sites

I've spoken with Rackspace's people about the ability of cloud sites to scale. It is true that the sites will auto-scale but the mysql database will not auto scale - they have the same database scaling issues as everyone else.

I didn't realize the database didn't scale. If an automatic scaling MySQL database as a service doesn't already exist, then there is an idea for a startup! If you build it, I'm sure a lot of people would pay.

EDIT: I didn't see the other comment...I guess someone at YC beat you to it!

Latency would be to high for most usage (retrieve a couple of rows a t a time). I would use it as the service is ALL my queries where taking 1 second and more on my own system, and about the same time (or better: less time) from the cloud.

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