Nobody's asking for mainline submissions though. Just publishing the drivers source code under a FLOSS licence when they stop supporting it would be enough to let the community take over the maintenance.
While I'd agree with the general stance of avoiding MongoDB for any new project, I find the statement that postgres always gives better and faster solution dubious. They don't really solve the same problems. If you happen to really need horizontal scaling, actual HA (not failovers) or documents with many field-level atomic operations, MongoDB might still be a better fit than postgres. For on-premise hosting, not having any HA out-of-the-box can be a major painpoint.
I works great (with the usual requirement of having the expected kernel options/modules enabled). The main issue right now is the lack of image support for RISC-V. I hope this is going to change if hardware starts becoming accessible.
Thanks for the clarification, you're completely right. I didn't realize the SG2042 used the same core. So, Scaleway's offer really does seem to make sense!
> The JH7110 is usually about 10% faster on system level real world tasks e.g. building software.
Pretty sure the U74 CPU from the JH7110 is way worse than the C910 from the TH1520 on pretty much all aspects. So my guess is that your metric is mostly explained by the fact that the JH7110 has a PCIe bus which allows plugging in an SSD rather than an eMMC or SD Card. But such SSD also has a cost. I think this gives some perspectives.
Still way better than a VisionFive 2, and more than enough to get your hands in the thing (especially with the hourly pricing). You have to acknowledge that the RISC-V ecosystem isn't as mature as that of ARM64 and AMD64. You don't get the best performance/price ratio with RISC-V (yet). Many extensions were ratified so recently that hardware doesn't even exist (yet).
As far as I'm concerned, the LicheePi 4A from Sipeed which is also equipped with a TH1520 offers a decent value for a RISC-V SBC. If you want more performance than that, it's going to cost you a lot more.
According to my tests, it's billed by the hour with no minimum commitment. It's attractive indeed for transient workloads. €15.99 for one month commitment sounds okay-ish when comparing with competitor's offering at this price (but you don't get RISC-V servers there (yet)).