Databases
Memory first, storage second, and a restore you have tested.
A self-managed database lives or dies by its working set fitting in memory and by its backups being restorable. Everything else is tuning.
Recommended resource profile
A starting point, not a floor. The hints say what runs short first.
- vCPU
- 4 to 6
- Memory
- 16 to 32 GB
- Storage
- 320 GB NVMe and up
- Transfer
- 10 TB and up
Aim to hold the working set in memory.
Data, indexes and WAL or binlogs.
What this workload actually needs
Conditions that have to be true before it will work, whatever plan you pick.
Requirements
- A firewall rule that exposes the database port only to the machines that need it.
- A backup schedule, and a restore you have performed at least once.
- Enough free disk for the write-ahead log or binary log to grow between checkpoints.
Deployment considerations
- A high-memory plan is usually a better purchase than more vCPU for database work.
- Snapshots are not a substitute for a logical dump. Keep both where the data matters.
- Storage upgrades are easier to plan before the disk is full than after.
What we do not do
- These are self-managed instances. There is no managed database product, no automatic failover and no query tuning service.
- We do not publish benchmark figures, because they would not predict your workload.
Software that suits this workload
Compatible, not preinstalled. No one-click template is configured on any plan in this catalog.
System images
- Ubuntu
- Debian
- AlmaLinux
- Rocky Linux
Commonly run alongside
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- MariaDB
- MongoDB
- Redis
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Plans that fit this profile
Filtered from the live catalog by the categories this workload suits.
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