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Jan Vlnas • Edited

Good point! So it may be better to look at external DBaaS providers. For Postgres/relational databases there's aforementioned CockroachDB, and some others like PlanetScale, ElephantSQL, and YugabyteDB (Managed).

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Amy Liu

Supabase is vanilla postgres and very generous free tier

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Jan Vlnas

Thanks for the tip. I didn't consider Supabase for their managed database but I will check it out.

I don't consider Supabase as a Heroku-equivalent replacement, since it supports only short-lived database / edge functions and triggers. Heroku and the likes can run a “traditional”, persistent application server.