alt Hacker News[Disclaimer: I work for Xata]
As it happens, we've just launched our new Xata platform (https://xata.io/) which has some of the key Neon features: instant copy-on-write branching and separation of storage and compute. As an extra twist, we also can do anonymization (PII masking) between your production database and developer branches.
The way we do copy-on-write branches is a bit different. We haven't done any modifications to Postgres but do it completely at the storage layer, which is a distributed system in itself. This also brings some I/O performance opportunities.
While Xata has been around for a while, we're just launching this new platform, and it is in Private Beta. But we are happy to work with you if you are interested.
Btw, congrats to the Neon team!
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Is this open source? A major point of Neon is that it's open source and self-hostable.
1. Would you sign BAA (for HIPAA) for the Pay As You Go plan? Can't find that anywhere on your site except for that Lite is HIPAA compliant (https://lite.xata.io/security).
2. FYI, couldn't request access via the BYOC form so I sent an email as per the error: There was an error, please try again or contact us at [email protected].
The PII masking aspect is very interesting and something we couldn't get when we decided on DBLab a month ago. What does the deployment model within AWS look like?
Do you support http or websocket connections like https://github.com/neondatabase/serverless? In my experience neon is ultra fast that way in serverless environments like 1-5ms per query with network roundtrip.
Neon also supports anonymization: https://neon.tech/docs/extensions/postgresql-anonymizer as well as schema only branching
Hi @tudorg - do the Xata copy-on-write branches work like Neon in that you effectively get an isolated Postgres cluster, allowing you to test roles, extensions, creating/dropping DBs, altering schema & data of existing DBs, etc? I looked in the docs but it wasn’t clear to me.