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Re: Bunny Database

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Post by jorams »

kerblang wrote: post #65

Is this supposed to be a distributed DB that auto-synchronizes instances? Documentation doesn't seem to say anything about that. If not, it seems like it would be quite a bit of work to implement the synchronization... and I don't understand why one would use it otherwise.

This documentation page[1] seems pretty clear. One primary at a time, any number of read replicas that automatically proxy writes to the primary, when compute scales to zero the data is in object storage and a new primary can spin up elsewhere.

[1]: https://docs.bunny.net/database/replication

Re: Bunny Database

#92

Post by chungy »

koakuma-chan wrote: post #21

Why couldn't they just use SQLite, and not libSQL?

LibSQL doesn't look anywhere close to active enough to consider it for production IMO.

Just compare the most recent commits from LibSQL: https://github.com/tursodatabase/libsql/commits/main/

To those of SQLite: https://sqlite.org/src/timeline

One of these looks like a healthy and actively maintained project. The other isn't quite dead, but it's limping along.

Re: Bunny Database

#93

Post by tpetry »

fspoettel wrote: post #86
dagss wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you want to move from Cloudflare? Asking because I was looking at both Cloudflare and Bunny literally this week...and I feel like I don't know anything about it. Googling for it, with "hackernews" as keyword to avoid all the blogspam, didn't bring up all that much. (I ended up with Cloudflare and am sure that for my purposes it doesn't matter at all which I choose.)

A couple of reasons: - The free CDN is basically unusable with my ISP Telekom Germany due to a long-running and well documented peering dispute. This is not necessarily an issue with Cloudflare itself, but means that I have to pay for the Pro plan for every domain if I want to have a functioning site in my home country. The $25 per domain / project add up. - Cloudflare recently had repeated, long outages that took do…

You don‘t have to get the Pro plan to solve the Deutsche Telekom issues. You can also use their Argo product for $5/month - but only makes sense if your egress costs wouldn‘t exceed the pro plans pricing.

Re: Bunny Database

#94

Post by o_m »

Squarex wrote: post #5
ForHackernews wrote: post #4

This sounds a lot like https://turso.tech/ ? Unless I misunderstand, they're both pitching SQLite-for-the-cloud.

Yes, they mention they use libsql. Don't know why I should use them and not the product by the actual libsql authors.

Bunny has their own infra while Turso relies on a cloud provider (AWS) which is unfortunately a no-go for many European companies

Re: Bunny Database

#95

Post by tpetry »

badlibrarian wrote: post #55

Adding my voice to the chorus here: they've established a pattern of introducing new features and never really getting them past the 80% point. No qualms with the CDN; it's a sweet spot among providers. But their other offerings have been frustrating me for years now.

Can you share some anecdotes?

Re: Bunny Database

#96

Post by js4ever »

tpetry wrote: post #93
fspoettel wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A couple of reasons: - The free CDN is basically unusable with my ISP Telekom Germany due to a long-running and well documented peering dispute. This is not necessarily an issue with Cloudflare itself, but means that I have to pay for the Pro plan for every domain if I want to have a functioning site in my home country. The $25 per domain / project add up. - Cloudflare recently had repeated, long outages that took do…

You don‘t have to get the Pro plan to solve the Deutsche Telekom issues. You can also use their Argo product for $5/month - but only makes sense if your egress costs wouldn‘t exceed the pro plans pricing.

Pro plan without argo give you better peering on Cloudflare?

Re: Bunny Database

#98

Post by [deleted] »

cschmatzler wrote: post #45

fwiw, Bunny are the people that announced S3 compatibility for their object storage in Q2 2022 [1] > We can’t wait to have this available as a preview later in Q2 and truly make global storage a breeze, so keep an eye out! then apologised for missing that in September 2023 [2] > We initially announced that we were working on S3 support for Bunny Storage all the way back in 2022. Today, as 2023 is slowly coming to an…

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Re: Bunny Database

#99

Post by viraptor »

grugdev42 wrote: post #34

Maybe I'm not the target market for this, but how hard is it REALLY to manage a RDBMS? Any Linux distro can have MySQL or Postgres installed in less than five minutes and works out of the box Even a single core VPS can handle lots of queries per second (assuming the tables are indexed properly and the queries aren't trash) There are mature open source backup solutions which don't require DB downtime (also available i…

> Maybe I'm not the target market for this, but how hard is it REALLY to manage a RDBMS?

It depends:

- do you want multi region presence

- do you want snapshot backups

- do you want automated replication

- do you want transparent failover

- do you want load balancing of queries

- do you want online schema migrations with millisecond lock time

- do you want easy reverts in time

- do you want minor versions automatically managed

- do you want the auth integrated with a different existing system

- do you want...

There's a lot that hosted services with extra features can give you. You can do everything on the list yourself of course, but it will take time and unless you already have experience, every point can introduce some failure you're not aware of.

Re: Bunny Database

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Post by themafia »

grugdev42 wrote: post #34

Maybe I'm not the target market for this, but how hard is it REALLY to manage a RDBMS? Any Linux distro can have MySQL or Postgres installed in less than five minutes and works out of the box Even a single core VPS can handle lots of queries per second (assuming the tables are indexed properly and the queries aren't trash) There are mature open source backup solutions which don't require DB downtime (also available i…

> Any Linux distro

What is the upgrade path?

How often do they release?

Do I have to worry about CVEs?

Who is doing network security?

Who is testing that security?

Where are my credentials stored?

Do I have a dashboard that tracks the hundreds of resources I'm responsible for including this new one?

> Plus you have very stable costs each month

I'm sick and tired of managing linux boxes. It simply doesn't scale in any reasonable way.

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