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Reliability: It’s not great

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1226 points bishopsmother | 2 comments | 06 Mar 23 17:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.41s | source
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claytonjy ◴[06 Mar 23 19:27 UTC] No.35046327[source]▶
Very interesting to see Kurt assert theyre going to "solve managed Postgres", and I'm super curious to know what that means. Does it mean something like RDS, or more like CrunchyData?

I could see them building something RDS-like on their own, but if they're trying to go further than that I wonder if they'll buy or partner with other companies rather than doing it themselves. Neon strikes me as a Postgres-as-a-service that could pair well with Fly.

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jrochkind1 ◴[06 Mar 23 20:09 UTC] No.35046890[source]▶
I don't even understand what you mean as the difference between "something like RDS" and "something like CrunchyData" -- they seem like similar products to me?
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1. claytonjy ◴[06 Mar 23 20:54 UTC] No.35047434[source]▶
I see RDS as the absolute bare minimum for a managed database; providers like Timescale or Crunchy tend to add some pretty useful stuff on top.
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2. jrochkind1 ◴[06 Mar 23 21:40 UTC] No.35048048[source]▶
For my own curiosity, I am interested in hearing what features Crunchy adds on top that RDS doesn't have, that folks find pretty useful!

(Timescale -- I think i know, it adds features specifically about storing time series? But I don't think crunchy has additional domain-specific stuff like this? What are the pretty useful features folks find in crunchy that RDS lacks?)