New into databases - need advise on prices.
Hey everyone!
I'm spontaneously involved in financing/managing a project that requires a database. I've never dealt with databases before and based on what I was able to talk out of AI agents, the architecture for the database of the project is something like:
Workers
↓
PostgreSQL + TimescaleDB
↓
FastAPI Backend
↓
REST/GraphQL API
↓
Next.js Frontend
↓
Client Dashboard
What I want is advise with what is the pricing on something like this done from scratch. I don't have anyone whom I can ask on the ballpark on what this would cost, as I've never been in a remote industry with databases. Point is simple - don't want to get scammed on the price and I don't want to under-pay to get a half-baked database. I've already had approached 2 people on this, but the price that they offer seems oddly high per my understanding (north of 5k and it's not US-based development).
Obviously, I can share some more details, if needed, but not deep details about the project.