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Re: Bunny Database

#111

Post by jpeeler »

chungy wrote: post #92
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.

Your activity comparison isn't wrong, but it's because they are focused on doing a complete rewrite instead of focusing on the libSQL fork.

https://turso.tech/blog/we-will-rewrite-sqlite-and-we-are-go...

Re: Bunny Database

#112

Post by koakuma-chan »

jpeeler wrote: post #111
chungy wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Your activity comparison isn't wrong, but it's because they are focused on doing a complete rewrite instead of focusing on the libSQL fork. https://turso.tech/blog/we-will-rewrite-sqlite-and-we-are-go...

So yes, it's abandoned?

Re: Bunny Database

#113

Post by tpetry »

js4ever wrote: post #96
tpetry wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

The reverse. Argo gives better peering than any paid plan. Its the reason for the product‘s existence. They can use more costly peering that they couldn‘t use with their free egress model.

Re: Bunny Database

#115

Post by fspoettel »

tpetry wrote: post #113
js4ever wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pro plan without argo give you better peering on Cloudflare?

The reverse. Argo gives better peering than any paid plan. Its the reason for the product‘s existence. They can use more costly peering that they couldn‘t use with their free egress model.

Thanks for the pointer, not doubting that is true. My egress is unfortunately too large for it to make financial sense.

However, at the time I did plenty of trace routes to confirm that the Pro plans peering is at least better than the Free plan for the Telekom problem. Free plan would route traffic to NYC and back, while Pro plan traffic terminates in Frankfurt.

Re: Bunny Database

#117

Post by notrab »

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.

turso deprecated their edge replica offering when they went all-in on rewriting sqlite so bunny fills a nice void here. while turso didn't pull the plug for existing customers, new customers were left looking for alternatives with edge replica (that couldn't replicate on-device), and bunny does a nice job here.

turso also made it so your primary had to be in one location, but bunny will move it around based on latency on next boot.

Re: Bunny Database

#118

Post by tosti »

I can't take this seriously. You've got the backend of some networked application and now you want to offload the database to a SaaSS which has... "SQLite compatibility"?

SQLite is an embedded database. Every Android app for instance gets a db through sqlite for free. You can easily compile it yourself and embed it in pretty much anything that has a CPU.

So you'd like to offload this embeddable database that's nowhere near postgres or even maria, and then it even says:

> Why care about database latency anyway?

Right. Because you can't even begin to think about introducing a network stack between your application and the database unless you can't be bothered at all about the latency.

I can't imagine myself a customer for this.

Re: Bunny Database

#119

Post by kolp »

jtwaleson wrote: post #116
ruhith wrote: post #114

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Any experience with their DNS? Asking for a friend ;) only problem I've seen so far is lack of DS record support.

I've been using their DNS (migrating away from Cloudflare) for over a year and I've found it solid. Good latency and fast propagation. Custom nameservers are easy to setup. Migrating from CF is easy too - just export your zonefile from CF and import it to Bunny and you're good to go.

Re: Bunny Database

#120

Post by nbevans »

fspoettel wrote: post #61
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…

Yeah I'm in the same boat. I was pretty excited to bring stuff over from Cloudflare but the missing S3 compat. and the communication around that was (and still is) a dealbreaker for me.

Why would you move from Cloudflare to this shady company?
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