It's an ancient African word that means "I am because I can't install Apache Spark".
If you have the money, having a managed Spark instance with a bunch of added features can be a big win for some. There is a lot that goes into Spark maintenance.
They've extended and their platform does a lot now.
I assume that’s Apache Spark, which is described as a “ unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing”
Still not clear for me what to use it for :-/
Maybe there is no production db left from paying customers?
The naming is really confusing. When I brick my console it's broken. I'm not sure I want to brick my data :(
Hope nobody was using bit.io as a set and forget solution...
Which I thought was the entire point of the cloud hosted databases?
This is crazy. 30 days to migrate? Hope nobody is taking a holiday in the next couple of weeks.
What does that say about their own products? What if you integrate their products and are locked to their platform without any easy migration options?
If they lose interest on one of their own services, you very well may have 1 month to move, and 2 months to have a chance at keeping your data.
I'm not thinking about whatever legal technicalities could be debated by lawyers, but what real-world truth is.
Looks like I will have to go back to neon (they fixed the bug).
If anyone has other ideas, I'm all ears. Project is hosted on Cloudflare and they have D1 now, but Dittoed uses a little bit of PostGIS.
Would like to know more about the cost tradeoffs, also. Please elaborate.
Surprise!
Stinky.
Was easy to export my dbs from bit.io -- did so this morning.
I think there are a lot of different reasons why people may want to use a service like bit.io, but if you want a database with data in it to code against, run tests against, reproduce production related data-bugs, and run e2e tests against then check out https://www.snaplet.dev.
Databricks coined the "Delta lake" concept and are still (just about) leading the way, but Fabric has the potential from MS to take away that marketshare. Databricks need to improve their "serverless SQL" offering, and add a serious "data warehouse" component alongside the lake.
There are other fatal flaws to the Spark implementation in Synapse that I think carried over to Fabric. Worst one is the clunkiness/inability to run multiple notebooks concurrently on a cluster.
If anything, companies are drowning in a proliferation of siloed datastores and most are highly motivated to fix that situation; the exact opposite concern of "quickly spin up a new database".
Take "OpenSearch Serverless" for example: They claim "you only pay for the resources consumed by the workload", but even if you have an OpenSearch Serverless collection you don't use, you pay at least ~$690/month (and that's not even accounting for stored data)!
1. I don't have to think about or manage any servers
2. Usage is metered at a very fine-grained level (per X requests to the API/per GB of data/etc)
3. No fixed cost. You only pay for usage.
Was there a different meaning originally?
Bit io is awesome. It just works. I mean so does elephant but bitio has more storage. I never got very far with my learning and never did tadvanced db concepts like cross apply though so it was just simple entities and tables but it worked just fine and the best part, no credit card required on file.
Fly sounds nice but I don't feel so good about having to give them my credit card number...
That said, mostly PG compatible data types, indexes and queries, horizontally scalable with pay for what you use, free and reserved tiers.
I don't understand what a company hopes to gain doing stuff like this as the (long term) incentives don't seem to align.
But my understanding is they essentially got hired at Databricks? Maybe got a paycheck to do it?
Meanwhile they shuttered and abandoned the product and all customers.
Is it really the goal to make an mvp and plan to get noticed and acquired vs actually making a product, customers can migrate in a month or not we don't care?
The product they made was literally meant to be a reliable solution. 1 month for all customers to migrate away? Really? That's assuming they see the announcement today too, it would be so easy to miss the email/hacker news post.
I think I've seen this before
