Worry-free PostgreSQL hosting

Leave the complexity of PostgreSQL administration to us. We’ll handle setting up, backing up, and updating, so you can focus on building great apps.

Why PostgreSQL?

PostgreSQL is an open source, object-relational database built with a focus on extensibility, data integrity, and speed. Its concurrency support makes it fully ACID compliant, and it supports dynamic loading and catalog-driven operations to let users customize its data types, functions, and more.

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Powerful & scalable

Quickly and easily spin up a high-performance, high-capacity database cluster.

Easy to setup

Launch a database cluster with just a few clicks and then access it via our simplified UI or API. Easily migrate your database from another location with minimal downtime.

Highly scalable

Scale up at any time to support your business growth. Dynamically increase CPUs, RAM, and storage on existing PostgreSQL clusters and easily spin up read-only nodes to scale read operations.

Free daily backups

Your data is critical. That's why we ensure it's backed up automatically every day. Restore data to any point within the previous seven days.

Automated failover

In the event of a failure, Managed Databases will automatically switch data handling to a standby node to minimize downtime.

Fast, reliable performance

Managed Databases run on enterprise-class hardware for fast performance. Run your clusters on Droplets with shared vCPUs or choose Droplets with 100% dedicated vCPUs for mission-critical workloads.

End-to-end security

Databases run in your account's private network, and only whitelisted requests via the public internet can reach your database. Data is also encrypted in transit and at rest.

DigitalOcean's Managed Databases have been a game-changer. They’ve done a fantastic job of removing the complexity of setting up, tuning, and securing databases for production use.
Brad Kilshaw

Brad Kilshaw

Founder, Nivel Technologies

Having fully automated replication, backups and other database level configuration is a must for us. This plus their predictable pricing and awesome support made our choice of cloud vendor an easy one.
Raphael Costa

Raphael Costa

CTO, Eficiência Fiscal

How to easily spin up a PostgreSQL cluster

Watch a quick walkthrough of how to create a PostgreSQL database on DigitalOcean.

Integrated metrics, insights, and alerting

Understand database performance, resource usage, and errors so that you can efficiently size, scale, and tune your PostgreSQL database. Managed databases include critical database-level metrics, such as connections, cache hit ratio, sequential vs indexed scans, throughput, and more.

Scrapable metrics

Scrapable metrics refer to database performance metrics and monitoring data that are accessed via scraping techniques. You can use these metrics to access, extract, and analyze real-time performance metrics directly from your PostgreSQL databases with ease and flexibility.

Predictable pricing

Always know what you’ll pay with monthly caps and flat pricing across all data centers. Spin up a cluster for just $15/month.

World-class support

Superior support services are designed to meet your needs whether you are a startup, large business, or anything in between.

Detailed documentation

Learn more about our log forwarding features, pricing, platform status, API, release notes, limitations, and more.

Managed Database resources

Discover all of our Managed Database resources all in one place. With thousands of tutorials and forum posts from our staff and a huge community of developers, answers are just a few clicks away.

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Tutorial

Understanding Managed Databases

Explore the benefits of Managed Databases and whether they're right for you.

Tutorial

An introduction to queries in PostgreSQL

A guide to basic syntax of SQL queries as well as some of the more commonly employed functions and operations.

Tutorial

Understanding database sharding

Learn what sharding is, its main benefits, and a few common sharding methods.

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