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how much code will you need to rewrite?

If you're concerned that a service might shut down then you need to architect your application with that in mind, in which case how much of a rewrite is necessary is essentially up to you. Usually there's a tradeoff between going fast and engineering solutions that will work in the long term. Most startups never get to the stage where they need to swap out a service, so closely tying your application to a service is probably OK at the start.

If the service that shuts down is reasonably popular though it's likely there'll be very little code to change. API-compatible competitors will pop up to replace it. It happened when Parse closed.



The thing is, oftentimes these closed source database solutions aren't appreciably faster than choosing a managed solution that uses existing technology, like a hosted Postgres / MongoDB / whatever provider. In those cases your switching cost is vastly reduced, it's essentially a purely operational concern and your code doesn't need to change at all.




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