zeropg demo — 500MB
A real Postgres, living in Google Cloud Storage. No database server. Scales to zero.
🔥 Warm instance — request #2. (It cold-started in 9714 ms.)
| database size | 501.2 MB on disk |
| notes | 1 |
| filler rows | 57088 |
| cold-start total | 9714 ms |
| · snapshot restore (download+gunzip+untar, 567.6 MB) | 7828 ms |
| · PGlite open | 1398 ms |
| · lease acquire | 122 ms |
| durability mode | sleep — writes are memory-speed; the snapshot uploads when the instance is put to sleep |
| unflushed writes | ✓ none — bucket is current |
| fencing token | 11 |
- 2026-06-13 10:51:08 first durable write after cold start
flushes to the bucket, releases the lease, exits — the next load cold-starts
a standard OLTP benchmark vs this PGlite DB, streamed live — self-caps its size, then cleans up
Powered by zeropg: PGlite + object storage + a conditional-write lease.