Digital Ocean Managed Databases

I for one have always liked the simplicity of DO for hosting but I've never wanted to take on the full liability of self-rolling a DB server (and backups and replicas). So everything my company has I've put on heroku or azure. This has potential to be really significant as I'd wager there are a lot of folks in similar situations.

It's nice that we are finally at a point where PG is the first offering, instead of the "Coming Soon."

So now they have managed databases, load balancers, a cloud firewall that&#x27;s partially VPC like, object storage and block storage.<p>Assuming managed K8S is next, or maybe more &quot;AZ&#x2F;Region&quot; h&#x2F;a features. Great to have a new player coming into this space. Especially one with reasonable egress charges.

Just started using the new Kubernetes offering on Digital Ocean. Still in Beta but works pretty good. If this is a sign for how they will do databases, I&#x27;m all ears. Add CI&#x2F;CD and you have a Heroku competitor.

Wow, this is fantastic news! I think this opens the floodgates for lots of people who currently use Heroku, and would like to use simple VPS&#x27;s without jumping into the headache that is AWS. Any word on pricing?

I see some DO employees around.. What is the trick for getting access to the new Kubernetes and&#x2F;or postgres betas? I&#x27;d love to use both for my side hustle (Currently on normal DO droplets)<p>EDIT - I now see the kubernetes option in my DO account. Thanks!

I love that they are adding this. They are becoming a more and more viable solution for real production projects and their UX is top-notch, especially compared to the mess that is AWS and GCP.

Excellent, I&#x27;ve just finished setting up a Postgres instance on a DO Droplet. I hope they still allow SSH into the instance, so that I can load data directly from there.<p>By the way this comes just a week after AWS Lightsail started offering the same. Excellent stuff. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;aws&#x2F;new-managed-databases-for-amazon-lightsail&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;aws&#x2F;new-managed-databases-for-a...</a>

Holy crap, the fact this was missing is really the only reason I use Google Cloud for my projects.

This is the product that can finally get me to totally switch off of AWS.<p>Droplets &lt;- EC2<p>Spaces &lt;- S3<p>Managed Databases &lt;- RDS

Thinking about moving from Linode to DO just for this. Makes so much sense.<p>Would be great to have something similar for Redis.

How is DigitalOcean&#x27;s resilience to DDoS attacks? After Linode&#x27;s giant DDoS-related outages a couple of years ago, I moved everything to AWS on the theory that they (along with Google and Azure) would be better at mitigating similar attacks. Would be nice to have DO as an option.

That&#x27;s really exciting! DO is knocking it out the park lately as &quot;AWS...but easy to use&quot;. I&#x27;d love to see Mongo as a managed DB.

This is good news. I look forward to seeing the managed MySQL option.

I don&#x27;t see any mention of the cost. Is that listed somewhere?

Sweet mother!<p>#1 thing you can do to make this compete with RDS and Cloud SQL would be to support extensions out there that they don’t. HypoPG needed by Dexter, pg_partman, etc. Lack of certain extensions is the biggest failing of those offerings IMO.

This looks fantastic, Heroku definitely could use some competition. I love them but the only other option is using some insane AWS stuff with nonsensical icons and naming. Hope this takes off and adds a nice CI.

Anybody hosting an online business on Digital Ocean (or similar VPS)? All companies I see all use Heruko, AWS or GCP.

very interesting. With this and the new DO kubernetes offering (if both are reliable), DO could be a compelling option for postgres-based kubernetes clusters baseload - circa half the price of google cloud.<p>All the other stuff you need like logs and monitoring can be installed with helm charts.

I wonder if this is a response to Amazon Lightsail[1] now offering managed database?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;aws&#x2F;new-managed-databases-for-amazon-lightsail&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;aws&#x2F;new-managed-databases-for-a...</a>

I think that is the final major puzzle to going All in on DO, hopefully it would not be built on top of their current Droplet config but much more customised for DB&#x27;s need.<p>On the Subject of DO, I am wondering am I the only one who felt the need of 1vCPU to 1GB RAM droplet? Given the vCPU aren&#x27;t even core but thread. Now that Managed DB is in place that is even more need for frameworks like Rails, my guess for other framework would need even less memory per process &#x2F; Thread. I was hoping AMD EPYC will make that happen, but so far nothing has happened yet on all other VM hosting providers. May be EPYC 2.<p>And if DO will someday provide an CDN, or reselling of CDN through partnership.( Although BunnyCDN seems to be working great for me at the moment.)

Postgresql first.. finally.. cool!

I was looking for hosted PostgreSQL and eventually wound up at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;elephantsql.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;elephantsql.com</a>, with which I&#x27;ve been happy. I don&#x27;t have a &#x27;production&#x27; service in that I&#x27;m not relying on a DB to sell a service, like underpinning an app&#x2F;website. But my DB is mission critical for knowledge management for my business, and I don&#x27;t trust myself to manage the server properly. Nice to see competition in this space, and DO is a good one to be offering hosted databases - I&#x27;m happy with their other services too.

I’ve been hoping for this for a while. I’m eagerly awaiting access to their Kubernetes service, so this is a perfect compliment to the upcoming service releases.<p>Also interesting timing too. Amazon Lightsail (the cheaper AWS alternative) is similarly priced to providers such as DigitalOcean, Linode, etc and released their managed database offering the other day: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;aws&#x2F;new-managed-databases-for-amazon-lightsail&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;aws&#x2F;new-managed-databases-for-a...</a>

I’ve loved the simplicity and speed of DO.<p>DO has definitely a lot to offer via some simple cloudy things as<p>1) Good ol VMS and load balancers - they already do<p>2) Managed K8s - may be they already do? I dunno<p>3) Managed DBs - good to see this.<p>4) Big fat blob store (like s3) - not sure. CDN that operates over blob store would be nice too.<p>With this pieces, one can develop quite a significantly complex and scalable application without worrying about infra.<p>AWS, Azure, GCP are wayyy too complicated. There’s definitely a niche for an IAAS Company to only do the few important things and do them better (speed, reliability, price) than the big 3 and steal a meaningful chunk of the market.

Would be great to see a benchmark vs a database in a regular DigitalOcean droplet, or information about hardware. This information would be useful for projects requiring high performance per sec.

Well that news just made feel great about picking Postgres for my current SaaS project. Definitely going to be migrating over once I get access!<p>I wonder how long they&#x27;ve been working on this.

This is great but I wish they would give some more insight into the early access system. Ive been waiting for Kubernetes access for what seems like an eternity.

Caught this late this morning - any DO employees still here? I&#x27;m signed up for the k8 &amp; postgres betas but haven&#x27;t had any luck getting k8 opened up. Would LOVE to participate in the postgres managed beta - definitely trying to move off from AWS for this.<p>bryan at priceflow.com

This is a huge deal for me personally, and probably the main and only reason why I haven&#x27;t used Digital Ocean for real yet. Let&#x27;s see how the pricing goes, since having many small projects each one with very little requirements normally means paying a lot of $.

This is fantastic timing—I didn&#x27;t feel like dealing with Postgres configuration&#x2F;management, so I went with CockroachDB instead (which also forced me off a CPU core since I required more RAM).<p>Here&#x27;s to hoping that receiving access doesn&#x27;t take too long ^_^

This is a game changer. But just how much more reliable will this be compared to Amazon RDS?

This was what held me back from using DO for all my projects. Happy it&#x27;s here now.

What is the cost?

If anyone from DO is around - Will libprotobuf-c be available on managed postgres? I ask because for the longest time AWS RDS didn&#x27;t support cutting Mapbox Vector Tiles from PostGIS.

Would be awesome if DO also included support for MemSQL.<p>I know MemSQL back in 2017 announced managed services, but I&#x27;m pretty sure they closed it. Although I can&#x27;t find a link.

Very interesting.<p>I put up a few different sights on a droplet and have been preparing to make a switch over to Heroku exactly for the sake of the managed postgres.<p>Maybe I won&#x27;t have to!

Is there an expected downtime during system updates?

I bet it is going to be very expensive. I have a 300gb MySQL database that needs a more reliable home. I add about 800mb if data a day.

Would love a chance to test this and the k8s service out. My email is mikhail at chattermill dot io

this is a useful thing as i often did these by hand on DO before, and they are a bit of a pain. but if their pricing for volumes is any indication, these will be pretty expensive. curious what the price is going to be.

Great to see DO adding managed db. Looking forward to see cloud functions.

this is fantastic! I&#x27;ve got several droplets for smaller customers and it&#x27;s always a pain to setup and manage a DB for them.<p>I just hope it&#x27;s not terribly expensive for the smallest tier.

Would love to get an early access to DO k8s!

What are the chances of mongodb?