Managed Databases

Your database
is a detail.

Schema design, query optimisation, connection strings — those are your business. Patches, backups, failover, storage — those are ours.

users

id uuid PRIMARY KEY

email text UNIQUE

created_at timestamptz

orders

id uuid PRIMARY KEY

user_id uuid → users.id

total numeric(10,2)

products

id uuid PRIMARY KEY

name text

price numeric(10,2)

Just write SQL. We handle the rest.

What "managed" actually means

A managed database removes the operations layer entirely.

Self-managed (you own this)
  • Provision & size the server
  • Configure replication & failover
  • Monitor disk space
  • Apply OS & Postgres patches
  • Set up backup cron jobs
  • Manage connection pool limits
  • Handle major version upgrades
With Nodesail (your job)
  • Write your schema
  • Run your migrations
  • Optimise your queries
  • Use your connection string

postgresql://user:pass@db.nodesail.app:5432/mydb

Backups & Recovery

Every minute, invisibly

Continuous WAL archiving means you can restore to any point in time — not just the last nightly backup, but any specific second within your retention window. Disaster recovery that actually works.

Continuous backup

WAL streaming, every write captured

Point-in-time recovery

Restore to any second, not just daily snapshots

Cross-region copies

Backups replicated to a second region

One-click restore

Test restores in staging before touching prod

connections → pool → postgres

PgBouncer

Connection Pooling

1,000 app connections. One database connection pool.

PgBouncer-compatible connection pooling is built in and enabled by default. Your app can open thousands of concurrent connections without exhausting Postgres connection slots. No extra configuration needed.

Supported engines

PostgreSQL

14, 15, 16

MySQL

8.x

Redis

7.x (cache)

Prisma, Drizzle, TypeORM, SQLAlchemy, and all major ORMs work out of the box.

Your database in 60 seconds

Pick your engine, pick your region — you'll have a connection string in under a minute.

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