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Database hosting

Cloudant CouchDB

Pricing page

  • Free tier: 1$/GB per month, $0.015$/100 "heavy" requests, $0.015/500 "light" requests, first $50 per month free
  • Pros: Full CouchDB hosting. Can host also static sites and javascript applications
  • Limitations: Account on shared multitenant instance
  • Exceeding the free tier: Credit card needed after first 30 days to charge exceeding usage

Firebase database

Pricing page

  • Free tier: 1GB storage, 10GB/month transfer, 100 simultaneous connections
  • Pros: really fast can be used for real time pub/sub, libraries for multiple platforms, designed to be used directly from frontend (with security rules), integrates with Firebase Authentication
  • Limitations: no backups, limited queries, complicated security rules (read the manual!)

GearHost Database

Pricing page

  • Free tier: 5MB MySQL database or 10MB MS SQL database
  • Pros: Recent versions (MySQL 5.6, MS SQL Server 2014)
  • Limitations: simultaneous connections seems to be limited (according to this page, approx. 15)
  • Exceeding the free tier: The database becomes locked and a kind email is sent asking to upgrade to paid plan

Google Cloud Datastore

Product page

  • Free tier: 1GB storage/day, 50K reads/day, 20K writes/day, 20K deletes/day
  • Pros: dashboard, clients available in multiple languages, fully managed (sharding and replication), ACID transactions
  • Limitations: complex requests needs specific indexes (read the manual)

Heroku Postgres

Product page

  • Free tier: 10K rows/month, 20 simultaneous connections
  • Pros: dashboard, secured
  • Limitations: SLA with maximum of 4 hours of downtime/month (99.5% uptime), no in-memory cache, no expensive queries support

Heroku Redis

Product page

  • Free tier: 25MB ram, 20 connections
  • Pros: dashboard, secured, analytics, access via Heroku CLI
  • Limitations: SLA with maximum of 4 hours of downtime/month

mLab

Pricing page

  • Free tier: 500MB storage, daily backup
  • Pros: managed on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, data browser, monitoring

OpenShift MongoDB

Product Page

  • Free tier: 1Gb storage
  • Pros: Easy to deploy
  • Limitations: Only support mongodb 2.4

Redis Cloud

Pricing page

  • Free tier: 30MB, 30 connections
  • Pros: managed, possibility to choose cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCE, IBM Softlayer) and availability zones