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Supabase announced Supabase Compute, a long-running serverless service that runs in the same private network as the customer's database.
“Supabase Compute, which is you can run anything. It's long running, it's serverless. It is running in the same private network as your database, so it's co-located”
Supabase Edge Functions are powered by Deno and have roughly a two-second execution limit.
“So we offer a product called Edge Functions, and Edge Functions are powered by Deno, and they have basically a two-second limit.”
Paul Copplestone says OrioleDB is a drop-in replacement for Postgres's Heap storage engine and runs about 1.5 to two times faster.
“It is a drop-in replacement for the the current Postgres storage engine, which is Heap, and it runs about, um, 1.5 to two times faster, and you don't have to change anything else.”
Supabase acquired the OrioleDB technology, paid for its patent, and released it free under the Apache 2 license.
“So we actually acquired the technology, continue to develop it, and then we paid for the patent and are now giving it away for free.”
Supabase tested OrioleDB with the Postgres regression suite, Antithesis, nightly TPC-C benchmarks and Jepsen to check that it cannot lose data.
“put it through PG regress, full compatibility with Postgres, Antithesis, we put it through TPCC nightly benchmarks and Jepsen to make sure that it basically can never lose data.”
Supabase ran one thousand sequential failovers on Multigres without losing any data.
“And we actually ran it, uh, again, through very rigorous testing, and we've done a thou- uh, one thousand sequential failovers, and it didn't lose any data.”
Sugu Sougoumarane originally created Vitess for the MySQL ecosystem, specifically to shard databases, and he works with Supabase on Multigres.
“So Sugu, um, originally created, uh, Vitess in for the MySQL ecosystem, but specifically for sharding.”
Supabase says it launches about 5 million databases per month on its platform.
“At the moment, we launch about 5 million databases on our platform every single month.”
Supabase announced that it acquired Turso to help power databases for AI agents.
“And so, actually, tomorrow, and when this is announced, it would have come out where we have announced that we've acquired Turso to help us power agentic databases.”
Supabase plans to keep the Turso brand after the acquisition, with Turso focused on SQLite.
“So we're a acquiring them, and we're actually gonna keep the Turso brand. So Turso's gonna focus on SQLite”
Supabase's original tagline was real-time Postgres, and the founders changed it to open-source Firebase alternative after the original drew no interest.
“No one cared. No one cared when we had a website. And so, like, we were like, let's change it to open-source Firebase alternative”
Supabase announced Capital G, Alphabet's investment arm, as a new investment partner.
“tomorrow as well, we're announcing that we're bringing on a new investment partner, which is Capital G.”
Paul Copplestone says S3 Express offers write times of one to two milliseconds, which makes it useful as a durable buffer in front of regular S3.
“the write times to this are one to two milliseconds.”
Paul Copplestone says Supabase has seen three chapters of AI-driven growth, the first being vector embeddings.
“there's been three chapters of AI. So the first chapter was, um, embeddings.”
Supabase promoted using Postgres as a vector database through an extension developed by independent developer Andrew Kane.
“and you can use Postgres as a vector database. And Andrew Kane, a a completely independent guy has developed this awesome extension”
Paul Copplestone says about 60% of every Y Combinator batch uses Supabase.
“we have 60% of every YC batch use Supabase.”
Supabase pays salespeople based on the extra account growth they cause, which Paul Copplestone says is about 100% above a control group's growth.
“just getting on a call and helping people out, their account then grows 125%. So that 100% uplift, the incremental uplift, is what we compensate our salespeople.”
Supabase has a product called Control Tower that lets enterprises monitor a fleet of databases.
“So we've got this product called Control Tower, which allows enterprises to have monitor a fleet of databases.”
Paul Copplestone says Postgres projects normally keep a migrations folder as a historical log, which is hard for agents to read, so Supabase added declarative schema files.
“generally how you operate with Postgres is you have a migration file every time you make a change, you add a file to this migrations folder, and it's like a historical log.”
Paul Copplestone cited a claim that only about 5% of Oracle workloads by revenue ran in the cloud.
“it was like one year ago, someone said that only 5% of Oracle workloads by revenue ran in the cloud.”
Paul Copplestone says Supabase currently spends about $300,000 per month on AI tools, for roughly 450 people.
“So currently, we spend about 300 k per month.”