--- title: Neon Read Replicas in The Wild: How BeatGig Uses Them description: BeatGig, a talent booking marketplace, chose Neon over Supabase, Google Cloud SQL, RDS, and Aurora primarily for its developer experience and read replica... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/neon-read-replicas-in-the-wild-how-beatgig-uses-them-9hf3pkqvw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Neon Read Replicas in The Wild: How BeatGig Uses Them | daily.dev og:description: BeatGig, a talent booking marketplace, chose Neon over Supabase, Google Cloud SQL, RDS, and Aurora primarily for its developer experience and read replica... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/neon-read-replicas-in-the-wild-how-beatgig-uses-them-9hf3pkqvw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/9hf3PKQVw.png og:image:alt: Neon Read Replicas in The Wild: How BeatGig Uses Them og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Neon Read Replicas in The Wild: How BeatGig Uses Them **[Neon](https://daily.dev/sources/neontech)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary BeatGig, a talent booking marketplace, chose Neon over Supabase, Google Cloud SQL, RDS, and Aurora primarily for its developer experience and read replica capabilities. Neon's read replicas share the same storage backend as the primary compute, require no extra storage cost, and scale to zero when idle. BeatGig uses them to give non-SQL-expert team members safe, read-only access via Metabase without risking the primary database. Compared to Aurora replicas, Neon's spin up in seconds and have transparent, low costs. Read replicas are now available on Neon's Free Plan. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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