About

Dzero's goal is to make a global lightweight database that is scalable and portable with the developer experience at the core. Most databases in the market require too much DevOps to manage deployments and tons of resource management.

If you want a database for Caching, Queues, API Key management, Rate limiting or even a full-fledged production database, Dzero is the right choice for you. It is a lightweight, portable, and scalable database that can be used in any environment.

Who am I?

Hi I'm Yoeven and I built Dzero initially to solve slow API key validation across the globe for JigsawStack. JigsawStack provides a suite of small model AI services in one platform. Each request made to JigsawStack is made with an API key which is checked against globally distributed Redis databases to validate access and other permissions. The validation time was inconsistent around the world and sometimes spiked over 1 second per validation. We tried adding more instances of Redis and the cost started to make no sense.

With Cloudflare D1, requests were blazing fast typically less than 200ms and with the full power of SQL. Unfortunately, D1 is still pretty raw which made it unfriendly to use and difficult to scale. With inspiration from Supabase and what they did for Postgres, I built Dzero to make SQLite databases scalable with easy to use APIs and a full dashboard for management.

I am a big fan of serverless technology, with the aim to automate any DevOps work and put the focus on the developer experience. I love to build products that make it easier for developers to build faster, cheaper and more scalable! There is something sexy about technology that just works and scales it self.