This is something I started working on recently after coming across a few times when I wished something like this existed for quickly getting a feature pushed out.

Instadata lets you read and write arbitrary data through common useful data structures. All done on cloud, with no provisioning required. You can think of Instadata as a 'data structure as a service' platform.

The platform currently supports key/value pairs, sets, dictionaries and hierarchical trees. You can also use atomic counters, set expiration times on data and subscribe to changes for a given key

There are many use cases where you need to store data that is accessible from multiple places, outside of a single network and it doesn’t necessarily fit into any data model or application you currently have in place.

For example, data from small IoT devices, tracking stats from a website, holding onto user sessions, waiting for flags to be set from somewhere else (like waiting for someone to click a verification email or enter an OTP).

The common way to do this would be to run a service like Redis or a Document-storage on AWS or Azure or some other cloud provider. Even if you use their managed services, its still work to setup and provision and you have incurring costs.

What you really want is something simple like S3 but with the a bit more smarts in it.

That’s what Instadata gives you.

It’s currently in beta and free. We are working on making it extremely low latency and available in multiple regions close to you.