jsondb.cloud vs Building Your Own

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Feature	jsondb.cloud	Building Your Own
Time to first API call	2 minutes	2-5 days
Monthly cost	$9/mo	$45+/mo (VM + DB + time)
Maintenance	None	Ongoing
Authentication	Built-in API keys	Build it yourself
Rate limiting	Built-in	Build it yourself
CORS	Configured	Build it yourself
Input validation	JSON Schema	Build it yourself
Error handling	Standardized	Build it yourself
Monitoring	Built-in dashboard	Set up logging + metrics
SSL/TLS	Automatic	Configure certificates
Backups	Automatic	Configure yourself
Full customization	Within API limits	Unlimited
Custom business logic	Webhooks	Full control

Why jsondb.cloud: Time Saved

Building a production-ready JSON REST API means setting up: Express or Fastify, MongoDB or PostgreSQL, connection pooling, API key management, rate limiting, CORS configuration, input validation, error handling, authentication middleware, deployment, monitoring, and SSL certificates.

That's 2-5 days of work for an experienced developer. With jsondb.cloud, you sign up, get an API key, and make your first API call in under 2 minutes.

Why jsondb.cloud: Cost Comparison

Rolling your own means paying for: a cloud VM ($20+/mo), a managed database ($25+/mo), monitoring tools, and your own time for maintenance and updates.

jsondb.cloud Pro costs $9/mo. That includes the database, API layer, authentication, rate limiting, monitoring dashboard, global edge distribution, and automatic backups. No ops, no maintenance hours.

Why jsondb.cloud: What You Skip Building

With jsondb.cloud, you skip building and maintaining:

●REST endpoint routing and request parsing
●Input validation and sanitization
●Authentication and authorization middleware
●Rate limiting per API key
●CORS configuration
●Database schema and indexes
●Connection pooling and retry logic
●Error handling and status codes
●Monitoring, logging, and alerting
●SSL certificate management
●Deployment pipeline and CI/CD
●Backup and disaster recovery

That's a lot of infrastructure code that isn't your product.

Why jsondb.cloud: Focus on Your Product

Every hour you spend building and maintaining API infrastructure is an hour not spent on your actual product. jsondb.cloud handles the commodity work so you can focus on what makes your application unique.

When you need custom business logic, use webhooks to react to document changes. When you outgrow jsondb.cloud's capabilities, you'll have a clean REST API contract that's easy to replicate with your own backend.

Code Comparison

Building Your Own

// Building your own JSON API
// Step 1: Set up Express
import express from 'express';
import { MongoClient } from 'mongodb';
import rateLimit from 'express-rate-limit';
import cors from 'cors';

const app = express();
app.use(cors());
app.use(express.json());
app.use(rateLimit({ windowMs: 60000, max: 100 }));

// Step 2: Connect to MongoDB
const client = await MongoClient.connect(process.env.MONGO_URI);

// Step 3: Build endpoints
app.post('/users', authMiddleware, async (req, res) => {
  // + validation, error handling, etc.
  const result = await client.db('myapp')
    .collection('users').insertOne(req.body);
  res.json(result);
});

// Step 4: Deploy, monitor, maintain...

jsondb.cloud

// Using jsondb.cloud
// That's it. No setup.
fetch('https://api.jsondb.cloud/v1/db/default/users', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'Authorization': 'Bearer <YOUR_KEY>',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    name: 'Alice',
    status: 'active',
  }),
});

// Auth, rate limiting, CORS, validation,
// monitoring, backups — all included.

// Query, filter, sort — all built in.
fetch('https://api.jsondb.cloud/v1/db/default/users?filter[status]=active&sort=-createdAt&limit=10', {
  headers: { 'Authorization': 'Bearer <YOUR_KEY>' },
});

Ready to skip the boilerplate?

Import your existing data in seconds with our CLI:

npx @jsondb-cloud/cli push export.json --to my-collection

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