Show HN: Signal Box, the API to your web apps
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get/set by key is probably there. But what sort of queries are possible is important consideration.
https://manage.getsignalbox.com/docs/reference/resource-api
There's also the SBQL documentation available at:
https://manage.getsignalbox.com/docs/reference/query-languag...
Is that what you meant?
Like I had no idea if supported geo-queries, and/or full-text queries. (seems not?)
To know how compare to competition :)
There are plenty more 'databases' in the cloud. Even ones just providing say a generic mysql instance, with a HTTP interface.
For something like 100,000 records - in general a pretty standard instance of mysql can cope just fine. A lot of the time the database you get free with shared hosting, can cope with queries on this sort of size database just fine (as long as they have indexes). (Or the free database you get with heroku)
... true yes you have to do a bit more sysadmin tasks - maybe even backups etc. But all very doable.
As a beginner at sysadmin tasks, I start to struggle with mid-size datasets. A couple of million records. This is when backups begin getting a pain. Query optimization is actully required. Things start getting painful. full-text search is non trivial. geo-indexes are cumbersome.
But its harder finding a database provider for this sort of size. getsignalbox's doesn't even consider this possibility (other than the 'get in touch') - it might well be able to cater. But talking at $200+ a month, which starts to get serious. + this sort of mid size is where the cloud could excel, where sysadmin tasks start to get non-trivial.
Another thing missing - is a simple bulk upload - to be able to import a midsized dataset to be able to try out the service. Even if that is a 200Mb CSV file :)
IMHO of course! (Or I need to think smaller ;)
Our service isn't aiming to be a cloud platform like Heroku nor a database like Amazon SimpleDB. Our aim is to help client developers by removing the need for bespoke server and database for each and every project. API development often involves a lot of repetition. We aim to remove some of that repetition so that developers can concentrate on creating a rich experience for their users. We're all about everyday widgets, mobile apps and rich JavaScript sites.
We've got a lot of features around the corner including a user management engine, powerful add-ons, data import/export and so on. It's early days for us. We're building the product we want to use, and hope others will too.