Lakebase auto start/stop
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07-14-2025 12:04 AM
It doesn’t appear that the Lakebase OLTP instances function like Sql warehouses in the following ways:
• automatically starting when initiating a connection
• automatically stopping after no usage in x minutes
I am wondering if others have use cases for auto start-stop, and if it on the product roadmap…
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07-14-2025 01:33 AM
I guess that the start/stop pattern is not something you want in a low-latency OLTP database.
Perhaps they add it in the future.
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07-14-2025 03:33 AM
I can definitely think of use cases where I would trade the cost savings for a few seconds of startup (like serverless sql warehouses), and low-latency thereafter...
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2 weeks ago
Lake base supports Autoscaling & Scale to Zero with Automatic Suspension & Reactivation capabilities
- Automatic Suspension - Lake base compute automatically suspends after a period of inactivity (default is 5 minutes).
- Reactivation - The compute automatically reactivates within a few hundred milliseconds when you run a new query
You can use Autoscaling to adjust resources based on workload demand & scale to zero to suspend compute entirely after a period of inactivity reducing compute costs to zero during idle periods. You pay only for active compute time & not for idle periods
More details here
