Database pricing questions

[Keith Chima]

I am building a small news aggregator app (java/angularjs) with a DB. It relies on storing the contents of a group of RSS feeds in the DB for historical search/sort/comments, and needs to stay up-to-date for breaking news. To stay up to date, the database will need to run at least one DB "put" fairly frequently, like once every 10 minutes. I think this would result in pretty much 100% uptime for that instance.

Do I understand correctly that, even at the cheapest DB option (.025/hour), it would cost basically .025*24*30 = 18$ a month for the DB alone? This seems pretty steep for a fairly small app, doesn't it? Am I overlooking some option? I admit that I don't really understand the datastore option too well.

Thanks very much,

-Keith

[Patrice (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hi Ketih,

Could you clarify what exactly you mean? If you're talking Cloud SQL, then if your instance is 100% up, you can refer to this page for the pricing. (also worth noting you're using the price for per use billing, not the packages, which come cheaper if your instance is up 24/7.

You do mention datastore as well. Which storage solution will you be using? Because datastore doesn't require instances to run (besides the instances running your application itself), it only charges for calls and storage. You can refer to this pricing page for it.

Seems to me like datastore would be faster and more responsive for your application.

Cheers