Unbounded: Serverless NoSQL database you query with JavaScript

Why are you 20x more expensive than Firebase? The pricing seems makes it unusable no matter how good the DB is. 1 million reads costs $25 🥶

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5yr ago

Will Weisser

Unbounded

Maker

@rayliverified Firebase charges per document read, whereas Unbounded charges per logical block read; depending on the size of your documents, you could read 2,000+ documents at once and only be charged a single read unit. That said, the current pricing is for the launch only, we anticipate adjusting it as we continue to scale the backend.

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5yr ago

Ray Li

@willweisser that’s fantastic and a very important distinction! I’m fetching paginated documents so the reads stack up. Thanks for the clarification which allows me to investigate further.

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5yr ago

ElFitz

How is DynamoDB not "serverless"? It's pretty much "the" original "serverless" DB! And what schema restrictions does it have? Edit: Oh! The primary and sort keys and the restricted property names!

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5yr ago

Will Weisser

Unbounded

Maker

@elfitz_ DynamoDB requires you to provision throughput on a per-table basis, which is then charged monthly regardless of whether you actually use that throughput. This is in contrast to a service like S3 where you are only charged for usage + data at rest.

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5yr ago

Alex DeBrie

@elfitz_ @willweisser DynamoDB has on-demand pricing which doesn't require provisioned throughput: https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/...

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5yr ago

Matt Potter

@elfitz_ @willweisser that is not accurate. DynamoDB allows you to choose on-demand billing which has no provisioned throughout and you only pay for what you use. But anyway, your product sounds cool. I’ll check it out!

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5yr ago

Will Weisser

Unbounded

Maker

@elfitz_ @matt_potter2 @alex_debrie You're right, they added that mode since the last time I checked. I will update the comparison table, thank you.

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5yr ago

Masry

Walling

I’ve used firestore for many client projects and it’s a pain that firestore can be very limited in some cases in terms of queries. I took a quick look at your website but there are many unanswered questions. What is the pricing? Do you have real-time support out of the box? How about languages other than JS like Swift? How reliable is your service?

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5yr ago

Will Weisser

Unbounded

Maker

@elmasryahmed I've added a screenshot of the pricing page to this post. Native modules for other languages are coming soon. The Python module is almost ready, but having your feedback on wanting Swift is very valuable, so thank you. Can you clarify exactly what you mean by "real-time support"?

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5yr ago

Will Weisser

Unbounded

Maker

@elmasryahmed if you mean pushing a stream data updates to clients in real time, we don't support that at the moment, but we'd appreciate feedback on how you'd like such a feature to work.

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5yr ago

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