are there any case stuides/examples of cloudflare customers that have thousands of dbs? Curious wh

are there any case stuides/examples of cloudflare customers that have thousands of dbs? Curious what its like to actually have to manage that many databases in production.

TToonyGen I just found a fancy repo to manage d1. https://github.com/earth-app/CollegeDB.g...

lambrospetrou•8/12/25, 9:41 AM

Really cool. I like the simplicity of using an explicitly provided "shard/hash key". It makes the routing much simpler. This is similar approach to how I shard across SQLite DOs.

I wonder how this was developed, was it a work project, college project (hint in the name), or just a side project? Majority of the logic seems to have been added in a single commit.

Either way, very nice to read through. Haven't checked the code yet. This is not an endorsement to use this in production, BTW.

Rred2green are there any case stuides/examples of cloudflare customers that have thousands ...

lambrospetrou•8/12/25, 9:44 AM

Unfortunately, I am not aware of publicly documented cases. We do have a few users that are like agencies developing apps for other companies and use thousands of D1 DBs. They mostly manage them through the REST API. Most of these cases are not attaching thousands of DBs to a single worker, as far as I know, although some did and use the Workers Patch API to update the bindings on their worker dynamically.

My suggestion, if you have a single worker project and want thousands of DBs using SQLite DOs will give you a much nicer experience. Now, if you are a platform creating thousands of projects and each one needs a small D1 DB that's a great use-case for D1 and managing the DBs through the API.

Llambrospetrou Unfortunately, I am not aware of publicly documented cases. We do have a few use...

Levi•8/12/25, 12:25 PM

I essentially came here to ask about dynamically creating and binding of D1 databases, but it seems like using Durable Objects would work better.

My goal is to have a database per user, org, or tenant for my one app.

Llambrospetrou Really cool. I like the simplicity of using an explicitly provided "shard/hash k...

ToonyGen•8/12/25, 1:25 PM

I think the author is using as the backend for its own social media project.

LLevi I essentially came here to ask about dynamically creating and binding of D1 data...

cloudkite•8/12/25, 8:27 PM

We are building a db per customer architecture and were holding out for dynamic bindings. However decided to bite the bullet and currently migrating from d1 to durable objects. Was initially reluctant but have to say it gives you a lot more flexibility and as a bonus has opened up some nice opportunities for performance optimisations.

Ccloudkite We are building a db per customer architecture and were holding out for dynamic ...

red2greenOP•8/12/25, 8:43 PM

with a durable object, backed by sqlite, does it act just like a sqlite db? you can create many tables etc? DO is a little confusing.

red2greenOP•8/12/25, 8:44 PM

with DO, you will have to migrate the schema using code ?

Rred2green with DO, you will have to migrate the schema using code ?

James•8/12/25, 8:50 PM

yeah, just plain jane sqlite, but only accessible via the DO runtime, no backdoor, file based access. Treat the DO as a web server running in the same process as the sqlite process and you're only way to run bindings/sql console. Which it literally just is that.

JJames yeah, just plain jane sqlite, but only accessible via the DO runtime, no backdoo...

Larry•8/12/25, 9:10 PM

I went straight to DOs so I don't know much about D1, but is there a backdoor to D1's SQLite file?

LLarry I went straight to DOs so I don't know much about D1, but is there a backdoor to...

James•8/12/25, 9:24 PM

no, but some people get the impression DO sqlite is something they get more 'native' sqlite access to the file system or extensions if they don't know otherwise

red2greenOP•8/12/25, 9:27 PM

You can connect to D1 using wrangler

red2greenOP•8/12/25, 9:27 PM

so that's a "backdoor"

Rred2green You can connect to D1 using wrangler

Larry•8/12/25, 9:33 PM

I was aware of that for D1 and DO, but it sounded like James was hinting at it being available for D1 but not DO for files in the Cloudflare cloud.

red2greenOP•8/13/25, 4:12 PM

generally speaking, other than the limits of db size, query size, etc. Are there any requests per second limits?

Rred2green generally speaking, other than the limits of db size, query size, etc. Are th...

lambrospetrou•8/13/25, 4:22 PM

Each database is backed by a Durable Object, which is single threaded SQLite under the hood, so the limit depends on how fast/slow your queries are. If your queries execute at 1ms, you can do 1K of them at most, etc.
Rough guideline is that for most cases we see SELECTs with proper indexes usually finish in less than 1ms, and writes are a few milliseconds, so depends on your case.
My ballpark generic guideline is about 300-900 queries per second.

We have users doing more, and we have users doing less.

Llambrospetrou Each database is backed by a Durable Object, which is single threaded SQLite und...

red2greenOP•8/13/25, 4:46 PM

great thanks. ok I didn't realize D1 uses Durable objects... I really need to understand DO b/c I'm a little confused now

I thought DO were backed by sqlite, but didn't realize d1 has DO "in front" of it.

red2greenOP•8/13/25, 4:46 PM

so I should create multiple d1's based o the rough threshold of 300-900 qps.

Rred2green great thanks. ok I didn't realize D1 uses Durable objects... I really need to...

lambrospetrou•8/13/25, 4:48 PM

D1 is essentially a layer ontop of SQLite DOs. The underlying sqlite engine is the same, since D1 uses a DO for each database.

red2greenOP•8/13/25, 4:48 PM

got it thanks.

red2greenOP•8/13/25, 4:49 PM

1. llms.txt 
2. prompt.txt 
3. d1 llms-full.txt

1. llms.txt 
2. prompt.txt 
3. d1 llms-full.txt

when using claude cli, which file should I ask it to read?

red2greenOP•8/13/25, 4:49 PM

(this is the d1 doc page)

Rred2green got it thanks.

Hard@Work•8/13/25, 4:51 PM

You can probably connect it to the CF Docs MCP Server: https://docs.mcp.cloudflare.com/sse

HHard@Work You can probably connect it to the CF Docs MCP Server: https://docs.mcp.cloudfla...

red2greenOP•8/13/25, 4:57 PM

ah ok, i'll look into that. that's probably more streamlined...

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[A]nToNin•8/14/25, 9:37 AM

im confused on the d1 free tier does it give 5gb or 1gb storage?

[[A]nToNin im confused on the d1 free tier does it give 5gb or 1gb storage?

lambrospetrou•8/14/25, 10:19 AM

Where did you see the 1GB mentioned? https://developers.cloudflare.com/d1/platform/pricing/

darkpool•8/14/25, 6:19 PM

Architecturally would it be possible to implement Cap'n Proto as a data type for D1? Spanner recently released protocol buffer support (apparently was available for years in their internal build) and it unlocks some really cool features like type safety and 10x faster performance vs storing nested data in JSON/JSONB. Compared to Spanner's approach, Cap'n Proto seems like it would be significantly better too since it's zero-copy. Is this something that's been considered or technically feasible with D1's architecture?

Lengo•8/15/25, 4:32 AM

Is Cloudflare working on removing the 10 GB limit from D1? This feels quite limiting for a production database…

Lengo•8/15/25, 4:34 AM

Also, will D1 auto scale to any number of requests?

LLengo Is Cloudflare working on removing the 10 GB limit from D1? This feels quite limi...

lambrospetrou•8/15/25, 6:37 AM

No, 10GB is a hard limit at the moment. No immediate plans to change that.

LLengo Also, will D1 auto scale to any number of requests?

lambrospetrou•8/15/25, 6:38 AM

Also no, see my answer a few messages above for the same question: d1-database

If you need a traditional "big machine" database, you might be better off with Hyperdrive + any database provider of your choice.

Lengo•8/15/25, 6:40 AM

okay thanks

Lengo•8/15/25, 6:40 AM

I'm probably just going to use Neon... if I could provide a suggestion, a service like theirs in the Cloudflare dev platform would be very cool

Lengo•8/15/25, 6:44 AM

I'm curious... who is D1 intended for?

LLengo I'm curious... who *is* D1 intended for?

lambrospetrou•8/15/25, 6:47 AM

D1 is a more managed database over using SQLite Durable Objects directly, so it's great when you can shard your application data model across several of them. Sweet spot is a few tens so not exactly per user but not limited by the 10GB limit either, if you need more than that in the thousands you are better to use DOs directly.

Imagine apps like the trendy vibe coding platforms nowadays where you need a database for millions of independent projects and each one is self-contained and small, just as an example where it fits great. Or internal projects that fit within 10GB (or N multiples of them where sharding comes naturally) and the traffic is not crazy.

Lengo•8/15/25, 6:49 AM

Ah, so not for something like a social media app for example?

LLengo Ah, so not for something like a social media app for example?

lambrospetrou•8/15/25, 6:51 AM

Well, social media is broad. If you are building Facebook, no. If you are building your own version of a small social media platform you could involve D1 in certain aspects for sure, e.g. for things that are private to a user. But then it also depends no usage, so just by a 2-word description it's not obvious. Again, my guideline rule is that if you are fine with 0-100GB of total storage and requests are not tens of thousands per second, D1 can work.
Otherwise, if sharding is natural to your app, SQLite DOs, otherwise Hyperdrive + any external traditional database.

Lengo•8/15/25, 6:51 AM

Okay, got it. Thanks!

nejc•8/15/25, 1:04 PM

Did something change in how Cloudflare is calculating D1 DB size. All of the sudden all databases are half of the size that they were in the past. Any insights into what is happening? Thank you

Nnejc Did something change in how Cloudflare is calculating D1 DB size. All of the sud...

lambrospetrou•8/15/25, 1:53 PM

To let us check, which database size are you referring to exactly? From API responses, billing, dashboard, etc.

Llambrospetrou To let us check, which database size are you referring to exactly? From API resp...

nejc•8/15/25, 2:13 PM

I am getting the same results from API and Dashboard

Nnejc I am getting the same results from API and Dashboard

lambrospetrou•8/15/25, 2:16 PM

Which API exactly? I checked your known accounts and don't see any drop in total size from our analytics. Please DM me more details instead of publicly here.

Llambrospetrou D1 is a more managed database over using SQLite Durable Objects directly, so it'...