Digital Ocean announces ‘Managed Databases for PostgreSQL’

Yesterday, the team at Digital Ocean, a fully managed and feature-rich database service provider, announced the ‘Managed Databases for PostgreSQL’ as a Valentine gift for the users. The new Managed Databases along with the PostgreSQL support will allow developers to quickly build a scalable, high-performance database cluster with less hassle.

One of the interesting features of this new provision is that one need not know anything about the Linux operating system or specific DevOps maintenance tasks.

Managed databases take care of some challenges including:

Help to identify the optimal database infrastructure footprint

Scale infrastructure while business and data requirements grow

Help in designing and managing highly available infrastructure and failover processes

Implement a complete and reliable backup and recovery strategy

Aid in forecasting and maintaining operational infrastructure costs

The team at Digital Ocean writes, “You’ll enjoy simple, predictable pricing that allows you to control your costs. Spin up a database node starting from $15 per month or high availability cluster from $50 per month. Backups are included for free with your service to keep things simple. Ingress bandwidth is always free, and egress fees ($0.01/GB per month) will be waived for 2019.”

Benefits of Managed Databases

A hassle-free database maintenance

Managed databases save a lot of time. All the user has to do is, quickly deploy a database, and the databases handle the rest. Users do not have to worry about security patches to the OS or database engine--once a new version or patch is available, just a simple click can enable it.

Highly secure and optimized for performance

All data in these newly managed databases is encrypted at rest and in transit. One can use the Cloud Firewall to restrict connections to their respective database. The database runs on enterprise-class VM hardware with local SSD storage, thus, giving the user a lightning-fast performance.

Easy scalability

With Managed Databases, users can scale up at any time without impacting their application, virtually. One can spin up read-only nodes to scale read operations or remove compute overhead from reporting requirements.

Automatic failovers

If any issue occurs with the primary node, traffic will automatically get routed to the standby nodes. The team at Digital ocean recommends selecting a high-availability option to minimize the impact in case of a failure.