I mean versus

with docker, you can control your own data as it's in your DB, and it's free for unlimited users.

docker connects to external DB?

But with SaaS, there you don't have to worry about maintainance and uptime

> docker connects to external DB? Yes. To your db

mySQL is only option?

so with docker, you can query the db manually if you want too.. in case there is something we don't provide

> mySQL is only option? MySQL and postgresql

will mongoDB ever be an option?

we also have mongodb, but that only works with session management and not login

but we plan on supporting mongo for login too.. just not a priority now

i see

so what use case would be to self host without docker?

in case someone is not familiar with docker, they could self host manually

which is not that difficult.. just not as easy as with docker, in case you are familiar with it.

ok. thanks

🙂

docker image vs docker binary

no diff.

ok

is there anywhere where "docker binary" is written?

not exactly. Says "Download the binary" on https://supertokens.io/use-oss

ah yea.. so download the binary is the manual way

where as "docker image" section is the docker pull command to get the docker image

Ok. That's what I thought.

Never tried docker before. I assume need some setup for that before we can pull the image, etc

u need to install docker on your system / servers

There are plenty of docker tutorials

it's a very popular infra software

you will need to know how to: - Install docker - Run a docker image with env variables - Connect a docker image to a database (either running in another docker image or on your machine) - Make the docker image listen to a host / port on your machine so that it can be queried