Serverless OLAP with Seafowl and GCP
Hello HN! I'm an engineer at Splitgraph and recently started learning Rust so I could make my first contribution to Seafowl [0], an early stage analytical database. Along the way I figured out a database hosting hack on GCP and wanted to share it with HN. It's a way to achieve "true" scale to zero database hosting that could be useful for certain side projects or spiky traffic situations. A recurring problem I've faced with side projects is the need for Postgres, but no desire to deploy or maintain new instances. So when I learned GCP's "always free" tier includes serverless [1] I got…
Serverless OLAP with Seafowl and GCP launched on June 6, 2023 with 54 votes, #1,468 of 4,655 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.
In plain words
Seafowl is an early-stage analytical database designed to run on serverless infrastructure, particularly Google Cloud Platform's always-free tier. It separates compute, storage, and metadata catalog to enable true scale-to-zero hosting. The project is useful for developers building side projects or applications with spiky traffic who need analytical database capabilities without managing dedicated instances. Seafowl is open source and written in Rust.
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From the sources
Scale to zero Seafowl hosting with Cloud Run. Contribute to splitgraph/seafowl-gcsfuse development by creating an account on GitHub.
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hello HN! I'm an engineer at Splitgraph and recently started learning Rust so I could make my first contribution to Seafowl [0], an early stage analytical database. Along the way I figured out a database hosting hack on GCP and wanted to share it with HN. It's a way to achieve "true" scale to zero database hosting…
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