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by mindcrime 2584 days ago
Hmm... Hard to say. I think you may have trouble differentiating your product with this description. When I hear "persistence as a service" my first thought is "I can just use RDS, or maybe something like Firebase. If those aren't suitable, how hard is it to spin up my own instance of (Mongo|Postgres|FoundationDB|ExistDB|DB2|Oracle|SQL Server|CouchDB|etc) in the cloud?"

Of course the fact that RDS, Firebase, etc. exist suggests there is a need for persistence services in the cloud. I'd just be curious to know how your thing is different/better than the existing alternatives?

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Thanks for your comments. This is actually a externalized layer between RDS and application. It hosts the persistence logic normally implemented by ORM. However, this platform attempts to provide a simpler method for creating the logic. For example, to create a query service, you would just specify the input and output for the service with JSON and then a SELECT statement for the query. The other two services you may create include a SQL command service and a aggregate CRUD service, all with help of a GUI Service Builder. With your comments, I see the need to carefully phrease my product to avoid confusing. Thanks.