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PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases

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231 points ryanvogel | 1 comments | 30 Oct 25 15:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.25s | source
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saxenaabhi ◴[30 Oct 25 20:20 UTC] No.45764853[source]▶
I wonder why other providers don't use metal ssd sync replication technique that planetscale uses? Most of them just default to EBS.

My interest in it peaked when I heard about NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe/TCP) and SPDK from Xata[1] and apparently with that performance is as good as planetscale metal, but planetscale found their methodology flawed[2] and they Xata never responded.

[1] https://xata.io/blog/reaction-to-the-planetscale-postgresql-...

[2] https://planetscale.com/benchmarks/xata

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1. marcoglauser ◴[31 Oct 25 04:18 UTC] No.45768389[source]▶
I'm honestly confused why local nvme disks haven't become the standard for cloud offerings a long time ago.

Aiven (not working for them, just a happy client) started offering local nvme disks for their postgres service in 2017. (https://aiven.io/blog/larger-and-faster-aiven-postgresql-pla...)

Back then I was sure it was only a matter of time for other hosted database providers to move on from EBS. But until Planetscale made a lot of noise about Metal no one seemed to bother.