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Re: Bunny Database

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Post by m_nalikowski »

throwaway894345 wrote: post #32

> Not every project needs Postgres, and that’s okay. Sometimes you just want a simple, reliable database that you can spin up quickly and build on, without worrying it’ll hit your wallet like an EC2. Isn't the operational burden of SQLite the main selling point over Postgres (not one I subscribe to, but that's neither here nor there)? If it's managed, why do I care if it's SQLite or Postgres? If anything, I would exp…

Marek here from bunny.net. We’re not saying SQLite is universally better than Postgres. The trade-off we’re optimizing for is cost model and operational simplicity.

Even as a managed service, Postgres DBaaS still tends to push users into capacity planning, instance tiers, and paying for idle headroom. Using a SQLite-compatible engine lets us offer a truly usage-based model with affordable read replication and minimal idle costs.

Re: Bunny Database

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Post by miyuru »

wahnfrieden wrote: post #38
bvogelzang wrote: post #9

Pricing Details: While in public preview, Bunny Database is free. When idle, Bunny Database only incurs storage costs. One primary region is charged continuously, while read replicas only add storage costs when serving traffic (metered by the hour). Reads - $0.30 per billion rows Writes - $0.30 per million rows Storage - $0.10 per GB per active region (monthly)

The best thing about their pricing is that you can prepay. So if you have a runaway cost, it can stop before you run up a 5 or 6 figure bill, unlike Azure/AWS/GCP/CF.

Their CDN has a minimum $1 charge.

I was testing IPv6 origin support (they don’t support it), and they billed me $2 for a couple of test requests. I was testing at the end of the month.

With other providers, this would have cost only a few cents.

Re: Bunny Database

#43

Post by nicoburns »

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…

I would have no concerns around reliability uptime running my own database.

I would have concerns around backups (ensuring that your backups are actually working, secure, and reliable seems like potentially time intensive ongoing work).

I also don't think I fully understand what is required in terms of security. Do I now have to keep track of CVEs, and work out what actions I need to in response to each one? You talk about firewall rules. I don't know what is required here either.

I'm sure it's not too hard to hire someone who does know how to do these things, but probably not for anything close to the $50/month or whatever it costs to run a hosted database.

Re: Bunny Database

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Post by cschmatzler »

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 end, many of our customers continue to follow our blog, hoping for good news about the release.

changing the roadmap to early 2024 [2]

> But we are working aggressively toward shipping S3 compatibility in early 2024.

That same post also has the beautiful "At bunny.net, we value transparency." quote. It's early 2026, and they're literally ignoring my support requests asking about what the roadmap is looking like for this now.

So, do not trust their product or leadership at all.

[1] https://bunny.net/blog/introducing-edge-storage-sftp-support... [2] https://bunny.net/blog/whats-happening-with-s3-compatibility...

Re: Bunny Database

#46

Post by kawsper »

I've been struggling with Bunny the last couple of days.

Their log delivery api is delayed by over 3 days, despite them promising only "up to 5 minutes delay" in their docs: https://docs.bunny.net/cdn/logging

Why isn't it on the status page you might ask? Oh, that's because a delay is not "critical", but I fear I am losing loglines now, their retention is 3 days.

It's an interesting strategy for them, because it doesn't inspire confidence in me about their other offerings. When they can't reliably operate a log delivery API or be transparent about issues, it's hard to trust them with something as critical as a database.

Re: Bunny Database

#47

Post by pousada »

jsheard wrote: post #3
pier25 wrote: post #2

Pretty cool. I’ve been using Bunny as a Cloudflare replacement for a couple of years and my experience has been flawless.

It does feel like they're spreading their resources pretty thin though, the S3-compatible interface for their file storage has been "coming soon" since 2022.

That’s the problem with keeping a public roadmap - in the end everyone is unhappy and also not really more informed

Re: Bunny Database

#48

Post by Havoc »

Will give this a spin. They’re one of the few cloud-y providers that has both prepayment and a rate limiter that doesn’t charge for rate limit exceeds (still blows my mind that providers charge for blocks).

Re: Bunny Database

#49

Post by stronglikedan »

senko wrote: post #39
wahnfrieden wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Look into the capabilities of what I consider the leading edge of open source RDBMS managed solutions, Yugabyte: https://www.yugabyte.com And tell me how easily you can achieve this "out of the box" If you don't care about business continuity or high availability then everything gets easier > And neither MySQL or Postgres ever seem to go down, they're super reliable and stable The box they're on goes down

> The box they're on goes down So? Not everyone needs 99.999999% availability.

And some do, so what's your point?

Re: Bunny Database

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Post by pier25 »

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…

One instance maybe but multi regional?
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