In this blog post we will go through the open source databases that are available as a service in Eyevinn Open Source Cloud.
Databases are fundamental in many solutions and some of the open source projects that are available as a service in Eyevinn Open Source Cloud depends on a database for storing data and states. There are a great number of databases to choose from and recent years a lot of open source alternatives have emerged. With open source you are not locked in with a single vendor but it requires you to host and manage it yourself. To reduce this barrier we have a few of these open source databases already made available as a service and more will be added. This enables you to run open source services in our platform that depends on a database without having to host and manage the database server yourself. It is of course possible to run the databases from another cloud provider if available. That choice is entirely up to you. And as with any other service in this platform we give a share of the revenue back to the original creators.
Let us go through what is available in Eyevinn Open Source Cloud today.
Valkey
Valkey is a Redis-compatible high-performance key-value store that can serve many purposes where simplicity and performance is of most importance. It can be used as a processing queue in a VOD transcoding and packaging solution as well as a store for application config service.
To create a Valkey instance simply navigate to the Valkey service in the Eyevinn Open Source Cloud web console and press Create. When the instance is created you obtain the IP and port to use on the instance card, e.g. redis://[IP]:[PORT].
MariaDB
MariaDB is a relational databases made by the original developers of MySQL and guaranteed to stay open source. It can be used as the database for a WordPress blog for example the blog you are currently reading from. This blog is powered by WordPress and MariaDB in Eyevinn Open Source Cloud (dogfooding). Another example is the database for Suite CRM available here.
To create a MariaDB database instance navigate to the MariaDB service in the web console and press Create. Enter the root password and database users you want to setup. These credentials are then used to connect to the database from the application. Obtain the IP and port on the instance card when constructing the connection URL.
PostgreSQL
Another object-relational database that is open source is PostgreSQL. The origins of PostgreSQL date back to 1986 as part of the POSTGRES project at the University of California at Berkeley and has more than 35 years of active development on the core platform. Navigate to PostgreSQL service in the Open Source Cloud web console and press the button Create to launch a new database instance.
Enter the credentials and name of the database and press create.
Couch DB
Apache CouchDB is an open source NoSQL document database that collects and stores data in JSON-based document formats and works well with modern web and mobile applications. Access your document with your web browser via HTTP. The CouchDB API is the primary method of interfacing to a CouchDB instance. Requests are made using HTTP and requests are used to request information from the database, store new data, and perform views and formatting of the information stored within the documents. Simple and easy to use with any HTTP client.
Navigate to the CouchDB service in Open Source Cloud and press Create to start a new instance.
When the instance is up and running you can click on the instance card to go to the web user interface to Couch DB.
Create a new database by clicking the Create database button in the top right corner. Then you can create your first document that you want to store.
There are client libraries available and the offical Apache CouchDB library for Node.js is called nano.
Conclusion
These are the open source databases that are available as service in Eyevinn Open Source Cloud today. If you have a suggestion of another open source database that can be made available as a service go to www.osaas.io and submit it there, or write a comment to this post.