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Does it clone the data? We have a table with 35GB data, what happen in that case?
It clones the entire DB so it's not quite 6s per TB but actually the entire thing takes Probably something to adjust on the site to make it clearer!
Congrats on the launch! One note on the pricing: it would kind of bum me out to pay $250/month for $100/month in credit. That feels like I'm losing $150/month.
But seems like this may be less about the absolute price but more about the way the 100/month of credit feels?
What do you think could be better? The intention of the 250/month scale tier was intended for companies scaling up that want BYOC for data residency etc. etc. and give them enough to test things internally without worrying about an overage bill before running it directly on prod but this might be able to be implemented better.
Congrats on the launch! DB clones have been a game changer for my team, allowing us to build isolated workspaces for agents to do work ranging from optimizing queries/views to building UI/UX that works for the actually combinations of data we have. We self-host DBLab since we had trouble getting Xata, Neon, and hosted DBLab configured.
thank you for using DBLab
Can you DM me, please? Really curious about your experience
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I wanted to try doing something similar to this in our dev environment (think shared dev database but per branch clones), but this limitation seemed tricky to accept: > The source database can't have any active connections during cloning. I wouldn't mind some lock contention, but having to kill all connections seemed a bit harsh
I guess it's still possible with a replica that no one is using? So you don't need to touch real production db? Not sure if it applies for all use cases tou
Using a cloud provider read replica might not (as I think that might use block level replication) - but then you're paying for an extra dev database host for the privilege
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If it’s production data I probably don’t trust a random startup with it. I’m very confused as to the target market here
I’ll bite. You’re a dev at random mid size company and tasked with using this newfangled agentic tech to implement an intranet feature everybody wants and nobody else wants to build. How do you get a staging and dev db together that’s going to let you test your migrations?
I can only imagine this being fine for 1 person side projects.
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A little slow but on Aurora you can attach then promote read replicas. Iirc that's around 20 minutes but I haven't tested recently. I'd think you could also setup logical rep to a VM then snapshot and clone the storage which is generally pretty fast.
You can create a new instance directly on AWS aurora. Takes less than 20 minutes! aws rds restore-db-cluster-to-point-in-time \ --source-db-cluster-identifier \ --db-cluster-identifier \ --restore-type copy-on-write \ --use-latest-restorable-time \ --db-subnet-group-name \ --vpc-security-group-ids \ --serverless-v2-scaling-configuration MinCapacity=0,MaxCapacity=16
Main exceptions are copying/encrypting snapshots when they're not incremental and PITR restores which can take substantially longer.
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There's no reason why it shouldn't, Delphix primarily targeted Oracle, but there is of course not as much open-source enthusiasm for supporting a proprietary database as an open-source one.
And also, of course, MS-SQL is only supported on Windows, and ZFS is not available on Windows. Windows does have Volume Shadow copy Services, but they are not as capable as ZFS snapshots and clones.
So is the magic basically to use ZFS and everything should work fine?