Affordability: Cost-Effective Self-Built Solution

Thunderous impact, breaking to build anew—keeping costs manageable and value ever rising!

Database License/Service Cost (¥/year·vCPU)

Open-Source: Fully leverage PostgreSQL's eco

Open source doesn't mean free, but when used effectively, it certainly saves money. However, using it effectively can be costly

Cloud databases underperform, good DBAs are hard to hire. Pigsty solves this problem with open-source management software

RDS/EC2/Self-Built Cost (¥/month·vCPU)

AWS RDS
¥ 791
AWS EC2
¥ 160
DHH IDC
¥ 25.3
Tantan IDC
¥ 19.5

Save More: Escape the RDS money pit

Affordable financial cost: escape the expensive pricing traps of cloud databases

Save 50% to 95%+ in expenses compared to cloud database services

  • RDS: costs can reach ¥10,000-20,000/year·vCPU
  • Self-hosting on cloud EC2, Keep all the elasticity and save the RDS gap
  • Self-hosting on IDC: Deeply utilize cutting-edge hardware like Gen5 SSDs
90%
Routine Maintenance
Management Software
Automatic Handling
9%
Complex Operations
Part-time Developers
AI Model Assistance
1%
Tough Challenges
External Experts
Outside Help

DBA Efficiency: Everyone can be a DBA

Affordable human resource cost, transforming developers and operations into mid-senior level DBAs

Build state-of-the-art RDS services even when database experts are unavailable

  • Encapsulating elite DBA expertise forged from real-world failures
  • Junior DEV and OPS can perform as mid-senior DBAs with proper tools
  • Build enterprise-grade RDS services even in the absence of database experts
Affordability Feature 4

Simplified Arch: No need for a cloud-native stack

Affordable complexity cost, no need to introduce containers and the entire K8s ecosystem

Using Ansible, familiar to operations teams, to deliver cloud-native user experience

  • The best of both worlds: cloud-native benefits without the complexity
  • No need for rare experts in both K8S and databases to support your system
  • Usually you only need to worry about: adding disk if space full
Affordability Feature 5

Enable Cloud-Exit: Key blockers resolved

In an era of Moore's Law driving hardware cost-efficiency, traditional public cloud services are rapidly losing their value proposition

Database self-hosting becomes the key to cloud exit - with self-build capability, you can truly escape vendor lock-in

  • No longer dependent on cloud services - own your infra, don't rent
  • Customers with self-build capabilities truly have choice and bargaining power
  • DB is essential for cloud exit, and Pigsty provides the FOSS RDS alternative

Community Support: Discuss, share, and co-create

Pigsty has an active user community that provides free public Q

If your question is worth answering and clear enough, you can seek help in the community

  • Ask questions in Gitub Issue, report BUG and defects
  • Join our WeChat, Telegram, and Discord groups
  • Monthly Office Hour, collect feedback and answer questions

Expert Consultation: Easy to understand, pay as needed

Affordable consultation cost, deliver insights from top experts

Difficult to understand, easy to understand, save your precious time

  • Quick Consultation: Coffee or a bit of luck
  • Professional Consultation: 400 $ / case, about one hour
  • Support Person Day: 4K $ / example, complete working day

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