Free database hosting

free-database-hosting.md

See also:

• Free backend hosting
• https://free-for.dev/#/?id=dbaas

Service	Type	Storage	Limitations
Amazon DynamoDB	⚠️ Proprietary NoSQL	25 GB	⚠️ Payment method required
Amazon RDS	⚠️ Proprietary RDBMS		⚠️ Only free for 1 year
Azure SQL Database	MS SQL Server		⚠️ Only free for 1 year
👉 Clever Cloud	PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis	256 MB (PostgreSQL)	Max 5 connections (PostgreSQL)
ElephantSQL	PostgreSQL	20 MB	5 concurrent connections
Fly.io	PostgreSQL	3 GB	⚠️ Credit card required, limited outbound traffic, no way to avoid accidental overage fees
Google Cloud Firestore	⚠️ Proprietary NoSQL	1 GB	⚠️ After the first year there's no way to avoid accidental overage fees
Heroku Postgres (discontinued) 😭	PostgreSQL	10K max rows
IBM Cloud Cloudant	⚠️ Proprietary NoSQL	1 GB	Deleted after 30 days of no activity
IBM Cloud Db2	Db2	200 MB	⚠️ "users are asked to re-extend their free account every 90 days by email. If you do not re-extend, your free account is cleaned out a further 90 days later"
MongoDB Atlas	MongoDB	512 MB
OpenShift Developer Sandbox	MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL	15 GB	⚠️ Expires after 30 days (can resubscribe for free but not extend subscription), pods are automatically deleted after 12 consecutive hours of runtime
Oracle Cloud	Oracle Database	20 GB each per two databases	⚠️ Payment method required
Redis Enterprise	Redis	30 MB
Scalingo	PostgreSQL	128 MB	Max 10 connections ⚠️ Payment method required after 30 day trial
👉 Supabase	PostgreSQL	500 MB	Paused after 1 week inactivity 2 GB transfer limit

planetscale.com

Discontinued.

2 good options that are free in 2024:

1. Upstash
2. Turso

My personal suggestion is Turso. It is SQLite, but does the job perfectly. The free tier is very generous.

For anyone looking into solutions for Java, Turso does not have an SDK and does not support JDBC. Putting this out there to save someone from finding that out. The best you'll get is libsql/libsql-client-java but as of right now it is not on Maven and is not actively maintained.

ElephantSQL is shutting down, no more signups and will be completely defunct January 27th, 2025.

https://www.elephantsql.com/blog/end-of-life-announcement.html

https://pockethost.io/ PocketBase Hosting

For anyone looking into solutions for Java, Turso does not have an SDK and does not support JDBC. Putting this out there to save someone from finding that out. The best you'll get is libsql/libsql-client-java but as of right now it is not on Maven and is not actively maintained.

@kyle1elyk
I should have read this sooner. Anyway, do you recommend any for the Java Maven project? I'm doing some library management stuff

For anyone looking into solutions for Java, Turso does not have an SDK and does not support JDBC. Putting this out there to save someone from finding that out. The best you'll get is libsql/libsql-client-java but as of right now it is not on Maven and is not actively maintained.

@kyle1elyk I should have read this sooner. Anyway, do you recommend any for the Java Maven project? I'm doing some library management stuff

@neilfranci Unfortunately I gave up on a free solution, and went with a Heroku deployment. $7 a month to deploy a Quarkus Java app, and a free 5MB MySQL add-on which is enough for my use case. My only other lead was the Azure SQL free tier but I had issues signing up

@neilfranci Unfortunately I gave up on a free solution, and went with a Heroku deployment. $7 a month to deploy a Quarkus Java app, and a free 5MB MySQL add-on which is enough for my use case. My only other lead was the Azure SQL free tier but I had issues signing up

@kyle1elyk I see it can use HTTP. Maybe that is the last one I have to use because none of the others have a better free option.

I don't know if anyone mentioned it but Vercel allows to create a PostgreSQL database and it's accesible from anywhere IIRC

I don't know if anyone mentioned it but Vercel allows to create a PostgreSQL database and it's accesible from anywhere IIRC

Yeah, it's Neon in the back. I'm also using Neon, but I never thought vercel would have it.

I am also using it.

any one without CC?

supabase is the best for Swift iOS

ggg