Cloudflare D1

[nelsonic]

Went looking for other options for hosting a Postgres DB and read the D1 announcement post: https://blog.cloudflare.com/d1-open-beta-is-here/

It looks like a very good product/service focussed on performance. But the pricing punishes success. i.e. the more rows your DB has the more you pay:

https://developers.cloudflare.com/d1/platform/pricing/

But it's not like in other DB systems where having more than a few millions rows doesn't incur a penalty other than storage cost and imperceptible query response time increase ...

If your DB has 10k Rows and the App has 1 request per second and there are 30 x 24 x 60 x 60 = 2,592,000 seconds in a month.

2,592,000 seconds x 10k rows = 25,920,000,000

After the "25 billion/month" included tier, the next 25 billion will cost: 25,000,000,000 / 1,000,000 x $0.001 = $25/month

If your number of rows increases to 20k your costs don't just double, because you burn through the "included" tier twice as fast and then its €50 for the next 25B Rows. Each incremental increase in the number of rows in the DB drives up the cost of every request.

This could get very expensive very quickly. 💰 There's definitely a good use case for D1 ... But it bugs me to think of building an app and having accelerating costs. 💭 Also, $0.75 / GB-month for storage is a bit silly. 💸

[iteles]

The cost on this does seem a bit prohibitive unless you have an incredibly profitable business already or have VC money to throw at the problem.

[nelsonic]

The database is usually not the most expensive part of a software company, rather the people (engineers) building it are. The reason I still obsess over the cost of DB and storage is because I want anyone to be able to run any/all parts of our stack as cost-effectively as possible. If D1 was price competitive I would seriously consider using it as I trust Cloudflare to do a good job. 👌