Database as a Service
Combine filters →Plenty of platforms run a database beside the application — which engines is recorded on every record that does. This category is the other arrangement: a company that sells the database on its own, billed by the hour or the cluster, with the application somewhere else entirely. It is the shape that came with serverless, where compute scales to nothing and the data has to persist somewhere that does not. Nothing of a customer’s runs on these, so their runtime and shell rows read as not applicable.
3 providers sell a managed database as the product, listed alphabetically. Commonest entry price $15 to $50 a month.
C
- CrateDB
A distributed SQL database for time-series and high-cardinality data, sold as a managed service and open source.
N
- Neon
Managed Postgres billed by compute hour, with branching, read replicas and an HTTP data API.
P
- PlanetScale
A managed database service selling MySQL through Vitess and Postgres, priced per cluster.