Just figured it is worth asking since these are databases we are paying for and bringing into softr.
The SoftrDb is great but lacks a number of mature features (JSON, Views, complex SQL queries etc) so we need to use Postgres, MySql etc. Bringing them into Softr I am sure has overhead for rendering and other big data processing features you all offer. But just figured it would be worth asking to remove the limits when we bring in our own databases.
Right now the perfect combination for the apps I am building in Softr are to combing the SoftrDB and then Supabase when we need large amounts of complex data structures and those can easily go beyond 10 million.
I hope this is just a simplified visualisation of typical database sizes for ‘Advanced sources’, intended for users who are not familiar with databases and how they interact with an app like Softr (despite what the tooltip suggests), or for those who think databases are always arbitrarily capped at a certain number of records and therefore would not realise this isn’t a real thing.
Thinking off the top of my head, there are only two ways Softr could impose a limit on an external data source such as Supabase:
Softr periodically iterates through all tables and performs row counts (which can be an expensive task). If the total exceeds the allowed limit, Softr could restrict or lock the Softr app.
Softr implements an artificial cap that directly restricts or interferes with the Supabase database itself (which would be outrageous)
The second scenario seems highly unlikely, so hopefully this is simply a somewhat misleading upsell prompt rather than an artificially enforced technical limitation.
It would be interesting to have clarification on whether this limit is actually enforced and, if so, how it is implemented.
