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yugabyte-db
YugabyteDB - the cloud native distributed SQL database for mission-critical applications.
It reminds of Yugabyte, which is Postgres compatible
> YugabyteDB is the open source, distributed SQL database for global, internet- scale applications with low query latency, extreme resilience against failures. *
However Fly is nicer from a developer's point of view, because it doesn't require you to learn a new query language, you can write good old Postgres.
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Our postgres clusters are just a Fly app: https://github.com/fly-apps/postgres-ha
You could run your own PG by modifying that app. Right now we're calling it "automated" and not managed, though. All alerts about health and other issues go straight to customers, we don't have DBAs that will touch these things yet.
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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
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This is a good way to do it. Catching errors lets us reliably ship a library that makes this work for almost everyone, but it's not right for all apps: https://github.com/soupedup/fly-rails/blob/main/lib/fly-rail...