Hi all:

I've been diving deep on full stack application development inside Zoho Catalyst. I've been using catalyst for serverless compute and API gateway for a few years, but I haven't used the DB beyond simple storing of app data.

As I was working through my sample app, I was really hampered by the fact that relational joins require a foreign key constraint, that there is a very low limit to the number of joins per query, that there is no ability to work transactionally by commiting or rolling back, and without that also no other options for upsertion except to conduct it in two separate transactions.

I think the DB could be really great for simple use cases but when working on an application with a complex data model it is not pass the ACID test and could be quite expensive to use in order to compensate for that.

My suggestion would be that Zoho provides a serverless hosting of a known and free to use DB like mysql as another option, and provide a data api in the style of AWS-RDS and Aurora severless. That is what I am moving the DB component of my application to because I need the features I mentioned above. The ability to use stored procedures will also be a major plus for me.

I love Catalyst! I want to see it playing well in the serverless space, and this is a major weakness to solve.