Unbounded

Serverless NoSQL database you query with JavaScript

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Serverless NoSQL database you query with JavaScript

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Store any unstructured JSON data without constraints on primary keys, property names or embedded objects. Map, reduce, and receive query results to your webhooks. Any valid Javascript works as a query, ending limitations imposed by proprietary query languages.

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How is DynamoDB not "serverless"? It's pretty much "the" original "serverless" DB! And what schema restrictions does it have? Edit: Oh! The primary and sort keys and the restricted property names!

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6yr ago

Unbounded

Maker

@elfitz_ DynamoDB requires you to provision throughput on a per-table basis, which is then charged monthly regardless of whether you actually use that throughput. This is in contrast to a service like S3 where you are only charged for usage + data at rest.

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6yr ago

@elfitz_ @willweisser DynamoDB has on-demand pricing which doesn't require provisioned throughput: https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/...

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6yr ago

@elfitz_ @willweisser that is not accurate. DynamoDB allows you to choose on-demand billing which has no provisioned throughout and you only pay for what you use. But anyway, your product sounds cool. I’ll check it out!

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6yr ago

Unbounded

Maker

@elfitz_ @matt_potter2 @alex_debrie You're right, they added that mode since the last time I checked. I will update the comparison table, thank you.

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6yr ago

Walling

I’ve used firestore for many client projects and it’s a pain that firestore can be very limited in some cases in terms of queries. I took a quick look at your website but there are many unanswered questions. What is the pricing? Do you have real-time support out of the box? How about languages other than JS like Swift? How reliable is your service?

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6yr ago

Unbounded

Maker

@elmasryahmed I've added a screenshot of the pricing page to this post. Native modules for other languages are coming soon. The Python module is almost ready, but having your feedback on wanting Swift is very valuable, so thank you. Can you clarify exactly what you mean by "real-time support"?

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6yr ago

Unbounded

Maker

@elmasryahmed if you mean pushing a stream data updates to clients in real time, we don't support that at the moment, but we'd appreciate feedback on how you'd like such a feature to work.

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6yr ago

JustMandala

I see two main problems: 1- What if you go bankrupt? Did we lose our data? 2- What about security? We need to trust you on this, you handle all of our data

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6yr ago

Unbounded

Maker

@florian_argaud Completely rational questions to ask any startup that handles important data. We do not foresee any issues with running out of money, and we would of course give everyone lots of warning if something were to ever change in that regard somehow. We are also working on tools to automatically backup / restore entire databases through the admin console so that data egress is as easy as possible (and all data is stored only in an open format, standard JSON objects). For now, Unbounded is not suitable for storing "special" sensitive data such as credit card numbers or social security numbers, but we'll work on more detailed security specs ASAP.

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6yr ago

Why are you 20x more expensive than Firebase? The pricing seems makes it unusable no matter how good the DB is. 1 million reads costs $25 🥶

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6yr ago

Unbounded

Maker

@rayliverified Firebase charges per document read, whereas Unbounded charges per logical block read; depending on the size of your documents, you could read 2,000+ documents at once and only be charged a single read unit. That said, the current pricing is for the launch only, we anticipate adjusting it as we continue to scale the backend.

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6yr ago

@willweisser that’s fantastic and a very important distinction! I’m fetching paginated documents so the reads stack up. Thanks for the clarification which allows me to investigate further.

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6yr ago

Hi there; congrats on launch !! Why should i use your solution instead of https://www.cloudflare.com/produ... ?

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6yr ago

Unbounded

Maker

@francoolaami Great question. KV store is a great choice if you need global replication or if you need to store data with Cloudflare Workers. Unbounded can do key/value storage but also has advanced querying capabilities and an integrated map/reduce transform pipeline, so it's more of a platform on which to build data processing apps than a simple store.

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6yr ago

@willweisser gotcha; so this is a online BaaS for heavy data (science) apps ?

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6yr ago

The pricing is a little difficult to extrapolate especially if someone is from the startup community and low on cash.

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6yr ago

@nirmit_dalal I agree. Might have to raise a round for this. Lets start preparing the deck

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6yr ago

Unbounded

Maker

@nirmit_dalal Based on the feedback here we're working on a new explanation of the pricing along with some examples to make it easier to predict costs for different scenarios. Stay tuned!

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6yr ago

Unbounded

Maker

Hi, I'm Will! I co-founded security company Cambia, acquired by Tripwire. I believe the first wave of NoSQL databases have fallen short of their goals, and I want to fix that next. Unbounded is a schemaless, serverless, NoSQL cloud database you query with javascript. If you can code it, it's a valid query, ending limitations imposed by proprietary query languages. Store any JSON data without constraints on primary keys, property names or embedded objects. Map, reduce, and receive query results to your webhooks. Free starter tier, only pay for what you use. The first medium post on Unbounded is also live today: https://medium.com/@will.a.weiss...

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