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https://github.com/lzear/free-databases
Some data storage costing nothing
https://github.com/lzear/free-databases
aiven cockroachdb database databases deta faunadb fly-io free mongodb neon planetscale postgresql railway supabase tembo turso upstash vercel xata yugabyte
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Some data storage costing nothing
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/lzear/free-databases
- Owner: lzear
- Created: 2023-05-13T06:03:58.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-08-03T11:47:07.000Z (6 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-08-03T12:49:00.027Z (6 months ago)
- Topics: aiven, cockroachdb, database, databases, deta, faunadb, fly-io, free, mongodb, neon, planetscale, postgresql, railway, supabase, tembo, turso, upstash, vercel, xata, yugabyte
- Language: TypeScript
- Homepage: http://free-databases.vercel.app
- Size: 3.55 MB
- Stars: 19
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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# Free Serverless Databases 🙌
Testing different free serverless database providers with a small todo-list implementation: [free-databases.vercel.app](https://free-databases.vercel.app/)
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## Featured providers
- [Aiven](https://aiven.io/)
- ~~[Bit.io](https://bit.io/)~~
- [CockroachDB](https://www.cockroachlabs.com/)
- [Convex](https://www.convex.dev/)
- _[CosmosDB](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/)_
- [Deta](https://deta.space/)
- _[ElephantSQL](https://www.elephantsql.com/)_
- [FaunaDB](https://fauna.com/)
- [Firebase](https://firebase.google.com/)
- [Fly.io](https://fly.io/)
- [Koyeb](https://www.koyeb.com/)
- [MongoDB Atlas](https://www.mongodb.com/atlas/database)
- [Neon](https://neon.tech/)
- ~~[PlanetScale](https://planetscale.com/)~~
- [PocketHost](https://pockethost.io/)
- ~~[Railway](https://railway.app/)~~
- [Supabase](https://supabase.com/)
- [Tembo](https://tembo.io/)
- [TiDB Cloud](https://tidbcloud.com/)
- [Turso](https://turso.tech/)
- [Upstash](https://upstash.com/)
- [Vercel Postgres](https://vercel.com/docs/storage/vercel-postgres)
- [Xata](https://xata.io/)
- [Yugabyte](https://www.yugabyte.com/)
- Cookies as a data store (no third party)
- Please open a PR or an issue to suggest more!
### Dead providers or broken demos
* Bit.io is discontinued
* CosmosDB stopped working after 2 weeks
* ElephantSQL will be discontinued in 2025
* Railway required an update from me (which I might do later)
## Getting started locally
Run `yarn install`, then `yarn dev`.
To make the different databases work locally, you will need to create accounts
with the third parties and add your credentials in your `.env`.
You will also need to create the todos table:
```sql
-- PostgreSQL table for most providers
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS "todos" (
"id" text PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL,
"created_at" timestamp DEFAULT now() NOT NULL,
"updated_at" timestamp DEFAULT now() NOT NULL,
"name" text NOT NULL,
"done" boolean NOT NULL
);
-- MySQL table for PlanetScale
CREATE TABLE `Todo` (
`id` varchar(191) NOT NULL,
`createdAt` datetime(3) NOT NULL DEFAULT current_timestamp(3),
`updatedAt` datetime(3) NOT NULL,
`name` text NOT NULL,
`done` tinyint(1) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
UNIQUE KEY `Todo_id_key` (`id`)
) ENGINE InnoDB,
CHARSET utf8mb4,
COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
```
## Test
* Unit tests: `yarn test`
* Cypress tests: `yarn e2e`
## Thanks
* All the providers for providing free tiers
* Vercel too, also for the generous free tier
## Known issues / be aware / miscellaneous
* Took a shortcut and set `NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=0`, which is probably not something that you should do in
production.
* ~~For Fly.io, I am allocating to database to an IPv4 address, which costs $2/month. I could not find a way to use the
free IPv6 address with NextJS+Vercel.~~ Fly.io never charged me, so I guess it's free.
* Using Next.js app directory, I couldn't find a way to nicely define special `export const dynamic = '...'`
or `export const fetchCache = '...'`. It forced me to copy some folders (`convex`, `cookie`, `deta`), it would be nice
if this could be avoided.
* Databases descriptions are taken from any place I could find them or AI-generated, they might not be very accurate.
## Todos
- [ ] Add this into [🕶️ Awesome](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome) or somewhere