Can anyone tell me if a prisma server, hosted on p...
# orm-helpl
Lucca
10/17/2018, 7:06 PMCan anyone tell me if a prisma server, hosted on prisma cloud, comes with a built in database? If you use the demo server it seems like its a combined solution. But in the docs it says its “just” an abstraction layer. 🤔
👍 1
p
panzupa
10/17/2018, 7:17 PMI have a same concern
👍 1
f
Fran Dios
10/18/2018, 4:17 AMTo my understanding, it’s an abstraction layer that provides a DB for development.
Prisma Cloud is just a tool for managing your servers and services. Servers connect to databases and hosts services. There are 2 demo servers available in Prisma Cloud where you can create demo services, which will use the DB assigned to those servers (owned by Prisma for development purposes).
Apart from that, you can add your own servers, each of which needs to connect to a custom DB (gcp, aws or anything else).
There is, however, a fully managed solution where they give you a new server for production with an optionally included DB. As any service like this, it cost $. You can read about it in https://www.prisma.io/cloud/ (search for “serverless hosting”)
p
panzupa
10/18/2018, 10:06 AMSo they started as Database as a Service provider and now they removed Database from their service. Sounds very much like them. Eh...
f
Fran Dios
10/18/2018, 11:56 AMI think the DB was never included in Prisma, only for development. Not sure about Graphcool.
l
Lucca
10/18/2018, 12:14 PMThanks for this indepth explanation. This should be in the faq. Can i use your answer to make a pull requests to the docs?
f
Fran Dios
10/19/2018, 3:47 AMSure, but please get feedback from someone working at Prisma to double check
Fran Dios
10/19/2018, 3:48 AMMaybe we can tag @divyendu here
d
divyendu
10/19/2018, 5:32 AM@nikolasburk maybe you can explain this further? 🙂
n
nilan
10/19/2018, 11:15 AMThis is a great and accurate description, thanks @Fran Dios!
👍 1
nilan
10/19/2018, 11:19 AM@panzupa Prisma Cloud has never been a database as a service and I don't recall that we stated that anywhere ever. So I'm very surprised to hear your statement. Do you remember where your misconception is coming from? We should make sure that this is crystal clear in all our resources 🙂 At least if you've ever used Prisma Cloud, you would quickly notice that it is, in fact, not a database as a service.
I've noticed that you're quite passive aggressive, and I wonder why that is. I kindly ask you to not spread your passive aggressiveness in this channel, as it's supposed to be a friendly environment. Let me know if you have any ideas how we can help you to help us realize this vision. Thanks a lot! 🙂
p
panzupa
10/19/2018, 3:47 PMHi @nilan Sorry if my behavior is off a little bit. I will do my best to improve. The root of my misunderstanding of Prisma lies within the legacy of Prisma. I always thought that Prisma is just a new version of GraphCool. Correct me if I'm wrong, but from outside it looks like both are developed by the same people. So was my assumptions.
panzupa
10/19/2018, 3:50 PMHaving all the doubts cleared. Could you tell me what are the plans for GraphCool. Because, again personally for me, it looks like GC is not as much important for you guys as Prisma is. I mean all the development focus is on Prisma.
n
nilan
10/19/2018, 3:51 PMI see, thanks for your clarification! Yea, there has been some confusion around that topic, https://www.prisma.io/forum/t/graphcool-framework-and-prisma/2237?u=nilan should be super useful to you.
nilan
10/19/2018, 3:52 PMThis is correct, we are focusing most our efforts on Prisma. We are still maintaining the Graphcool Cloud platform, but Graphcool Framework itself only gets critical bug fixes.
2 Views