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by kiallmacinnes 3411 days ago
I'm not sure how that differs from Azure Document DB? I have no inside info on this, but, I'm pretty sure it runs on a server too.. In the specific context of databases used for "serverless", clearly there are servers involved, it's simply that your application and ops team doesn't manage them.

What I'm getting at is, a hosted DB is a hosted DB.. What makes SQL unsuitable for serverless?
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kiallmacinnes 3411 days ago
Replying to myself here, I missed a key point.. the issue you raise is that you're billed per hour, even when it's unused? That makes some amount of sense, but any data storage is going to come with a per hour bill - either for the instance of it, or the data within it.

Anyway, my bad, I now see your point :)

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