> if you aren’t sending traffic, the database – and your query costs – scales down to zero. It takes only a fraction of a second to serve your first query after an idle period.<p>If this is true, it will being distributed SQL to small applications, so that they can scale quote far in case they become popular. Till now whenever I looked at pricing of managed CockroachDB or Yugabyte, even the smallest cluster of 3 servers was beyond $500 per month!