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Prisma Postgres - The future of serverless databases

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Prisma Postgres is a game-changing new serverless DB — tightly integrated to the Prisma ORM for amazing DX, and built with unique unikernel tech to eliminate cold starts. Start for free, only pay for what you use — prototype, launch, and scale with Prisma.

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Søren Bramer Schmidt
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Hey Product Hunters! I am beyond excited to write this. At Prisma we’ve been working hard over the past 8 years to make it easy to work with databases, by delivering the most loved Node.js ORM on the market. We get to come to work every day knowing that we’re helping the maker community build amazing apps, and that’s a great feeling. Today we announce the next major phase of the Prisma vision: Prisma Postgres. We are using all the deep expertise we accumulated over the past decade to build and deliver the *next generation* of serverless database. It brings all the best parts of serverless, while leaving out the annoying parts (*cough* cold starts, *cough* complex pricing), and it is tightly integrated with our ORM to bring all the power right into your code editor. Add a cache strategy to a single query, with one line of code. Stream database change events with another line of code. And there’s so much more to come. Our mission remains the same: make databases easy. Now we get to do that on a whole new level with Prisma Postgres. Oh yeah, did I mention you can create tens of databases, totally free? Try it out and let us know what you think!
Søren Bramer Schmidt
Maker
@masump - great question! Currently Prisma Postgres allocates a fixed amount of compute to your database. We are working on a system to automatically allocate additional compute for each concurrent request. We will release a blog post with all the details when this goes live.
Olivia Johnson
@sorenbs Grats on the launch! Great service
Kostas Livieratos
The pricing per query is a bit scary. But postgres+accelerate seems to have a very clear value prop! Good luck with the launch!
Shane Neubauer
Maker
@koslib Hey Kostas! Thanks for the comment, we also include controls to be able to stay on top of your budget. We heard numerous times that people want flexibility and easy scaling, as long as they don't get surprises on their bill. We're doing something rather new with this, trying to build a model that creates the *very best* DX -- so we'll be keeping a close eye on things to make sure it's received that way. Your feedback helps us do that -- thanks! 🙏
Søren Bramer Schmidt
Maker
Thanks Kostas! We had a long conversation about this on Twitter just today. Worth a read: https://x.com/sorenbs/status/188... tl;dr: We allocate additional compute per query, and if you run really complex queries, they will get slow. We provide you the tools needed to optimize. We think this is a better trade-off than billing you an arbitrary amount.
Kostas Livieratos
@sneub I need a greenfield project to try this out then :D
Nurul Sundarani
I love the CLI command to instantly get a Postgres database!
Shane Neubauer
Maker
@nurul_sundarani2 this is one of my favourite things 🤝
Igal Klebanov
It got avgDB CEO pissed/annoyed so we must be doing something right! 🚀🚀🚀
Shane Neubauer
Maker
@igal_klebanov this is for sure a major KPI !
Alexey Orlenko
@igal_klebanov @sneub isn't it more of an OKR 🤔
Florian Gößler
Finally a Postgres variant that matches my serverless deployment needs! 🚀🎉
Shane Neubauer
Maker
@flogoessler 🚀🎉
Martin Janse van Rensburg
Congratulations on the launch @Prisma ! Excited about the product. 🎈
Shane Neubauer
Maker
Hansol Nam
This is a huge leap forward for serverless databases! 🚀 Prisma Postgres + Prisma ORM sounds like a dream for developers, bringing seamless DX, unikernel-powered performance, and zero cold starts. The pay-as-you-go model makes it perfect for everything from prototyping to scaling production apps. Massive congrats on the launch—excited to see how this shapes the future of serverless DBs! 🎉🔥
Shane Neubauer
Maker
@hansol_nam Thanks! We are super excited :)
Carla Gonçalves
Very exciting! Congrats on the launch @Prisma 🙌
Shane Neubauer
Maker
@prisma @carla_goncalves2 Thanks so much!
Sergey Satunin
An instantly available Postgres instance with a free tier and ORM integration. What could be better? 😊 🚀
Mikita Aliaksandrovich
Congrats to the Prisma team on launching Prisma Postgres! 🚀 Seamless serverless databases with deep ORM integration - this is a huge step forward. Excited to see where this goes!
Shane Neubauer
Maker
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