Infrastructure

Xata: Open source Postgres platform with copy-on-write branching and scale-to-zero

Xata open-sources Postgres with copy-on-write branching and scale-to-zero autoscaling, democratizing enterprise database features previously available only in proprietary managed services.

Wednesday, April 15, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: LobstersBY sys://pipeline

Xata is an open-source, cloud-native platform for self-hosting Postgres instances on Kubernetes. It features copy-on-write branching (duplicating TB in seconds), scale-to-zero autoscaling, automatic failover, PITR backups, and a serverless SQL-over-HTTP driver. Already production-ready and powering the managed Xata Cloud service.

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