UPDATE Supercloud SET status = 'open alpha' WHERE product = 'D1';

In May 2022, Cloudflare announced its quest to simplify databases by building, maintaining, and integrating them. The company aims to empower users with tools for running powerful, scalable databases without hassle. During the past couple of months, they have been working on reimagining the database development experience for all types of users, not just experts. The D1 open alpha has been launched as a new concept for developers. It is designed to help users get a feel for the product on their hobby apps or side-projects before it becomes fully production-ready. The alpha includes features such as using the D1 dashboard, working with the Wrangler CLI, accessing D1 from within Workers and Pages Functions, and utilizing community-built tooling like d1-orm, workers-qb, d1-console, and D1 adapter for Kysely. However, some crucial pieces are still in active development and testing, such as replication and JavaScript transaction support. Limitations include database location, concurrency limitations, and availability limitations. Feedback is requested from users to improve the product for their production apps. Developers can join the #d1-open-alpha channel in the Cloudflare Developers Discord or create threads in the Cloudflare Community forum under the D1 category.