Cloud sql lowest tier is pennies a day, this ninja platform is also not free.

A spreadsheet is a misclick away from corruption, why not spend another prompt on getting Claude to configure a db?

kevcampb 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Which works out at $100 USD / year. You might think that's trivial, but when you start provisioning multiple environments over multiple projects it starts to add up.

It's a shame that Google haven't managed to come up with a scale to zero option or serverless alternative that's compatible.

	▲	Yokohiii 9 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Sheet Ninja is 108 USD / year and has tiny capacities for every metric. SQLite is free and would stomp this in every aspect on low budget hosting. Even a tiny API that stores CSV would be magnitudes more efficient. But what would scare me the most, is that google can easily shut this thing down.
	▲	robotswantdata 9 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		setup a DB project , use same cloud sql instance for all DBs. Did that for years on non prod or experimental projects. $100 is a bargain for what you get in terms of resiliency
	▲	rvz 9 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It is trivial to set up a database on GCP given that you know what you are doing and I would pay Google for that stability and support for setting up multi-tenancy and region. Using Google spreadsheets as a backend will just cause them to charge everyone later. Sheet Ninja isn't free. Even on their side, "free" does not mean what you think it means.

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n_e 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Cloud sql lowest tier is pennies a day

Unless things have improved it's also hideously slow, like trivial queries on a small table taking tens of milliseconds. Though I guess that if the alternative is google sheets that's not really a concern.