Xata 🦋

Postgres at scale — with copy-on-write branching, data masking, separated storage & compute , 100% Postgres and your own cloud

[Xata 🦋 @xata]

We’re extremely excited to announce that Xata is joining ClickHouse!

Blog post: https://t.co/UVGdvOlmVE

And the most important details are here in thread.

[ClickHouse @ClickHouseDB]

ClickHouse Managed Postgres is GA: up to 10× faster on local NVMe, sub-second CDC into ClickHouse via WalShadow, and hundreds of production customers, including @clay.

We’re also acquiring @xata, which brings agentic capabilities to the platform: instant branches and clones, automatic idling, and scale-to-zero.

Full announcement:
https://t.co/JDFBhqAj2B

[Xata 🦋 @xata]

Great conversations at KubeCon yesterday. Day 2, same spot: booth 237.

Come talk about Postgres for agentic workloads: a copy-on-write clone of your database, with production-like data, for every pull request and agent run. Hall's open until 5.

[Xata 🦋 @xata]

We're at KubeCon in Salt Lake City, booth 237.

Every PR, every preview, every agent gets its own Postgres branch, with production-like data in it. Come watch one get created.

[ClickHouse @ClickHouseDB]

Today we’re announcing the largest expansion of ClickHouse since we launched ClickHouse Cloud, and we’re welcoming the @xata team to ClickHouse.

ClickHouse now serves more than 5,000 customers, including DoorDash, Ramp, Meta, Tesla, Cisco, and Visa. What began as an open source analytical database is now a platform for the full set of data-intensive workloads behind modern applications.

Launching today 🚀

ClickHouse Managed Postgres is generally available.
ClickHouse Observability is in public beta.
ClickHouse Security is in private preview.
Langfuse AI Gateway is in public beta.

And with the acquisition of Xata, the agent-native Postgres company, we’re accelerating instant branching, cloning, and scale-to-zero environments for developers and AI agents. Welcome, Xata!

One open, composable foundation to build, observe, and secure applications.

Read the full announcement: https://t.co/F7admK9Ijg

[Tanya Bragin @tbragin]

It is my great pleasure to welcome @monicasarbu, @tudor_g, and the @xata team to @ClickHouseDB! 👏 👏 👏 Excited to supercharge ClickHouse Postgres with instant branching and scale-to-zero capabilities developers require in the agentic era 🚀 So much more to build, and I could not be more psyched to have our band back together 🤘

More on our joint vision here: https://t.co/ugePGGN18g

[Justin Mitchel @JustinMitchel]

@ClickHouseDB just launched Managed Postgres and acquired agentic Postgres startup @xata.

What's agentic Postgres? Branches for every agent, every session, every worktree.

What's a branch? An isolated copy, scale-to-zero, mess-everything-up as you need Postgres database.

Need more branches? Yes, you can do that too. 1,000 branches for just $1 is a mantra at Xata.

[Tudor Golubenco @tudor_g]

Massive news: ClickHouse has acquired Xata! 🎉 🎉

We started Xata five years ago and it’s fair to say it was a rollercoaster with many highs and lows. We’ve done one major pivot, tried countless ways to position ourselves, created several open source projects (pgroll and pgstream are the more popular), and in general I feel like we have been a positive presence in the Postgres ecosystem.

In the last year we’ve managed to find a good footing for ourselves, thanks to our tech: super fast branching and scale-to-zero, scalable to a huge number of small databases. These features are obviously a great fit for agents, so our timing was good. This has attracted the attention of the big database companies, and ultimately resulted in this acquisition.

[Monica 🦋 @monicasarbu]

🚀 I’m incredibly excited to share that Xata is joining ClickHouse!

Building Xata over the past five years has been an incredible journey. I’m especially proud of the technology we’ve built, the hard engineering challenges we’ve tackled, and the amazing team behind it all.

[Xata 🦋 @xata]

If you're using Xata, you can keep using it as you do today, and we keep accepting new sign-ups. Once ClickHouse Managed Postgres has the same features, we'll move customers over, as smoothly as we can and ideally with no impact on the service.

Join us today for an extended free trial: https://t.co/mCtQPXICFu

[Xata 🦋 @xata]

We’re extremely excited to announce that Xata is joining ClickHouse!

Blog post: https://t.co/UVGdvOlmVE

And the most important details are here in thread.

[Xata 🦋 @xata]

We’re joining ClickHouse to bring these features to the ClickHouse Managed Postgres product, in the form of instant branching and a new agentic tier.

ClickHouse Managed Postgres is optimized for high-throughput, long-lived production workloads, while Xata is designed to provision large numbers of small, short-lived databases in seconds, with production-like data and capabilities like instant branching and scale-to-zero that are particularly well suited for agentic workloads.

BTW: ClickHouse Managed Postgres is GA today https://t.co/a1qEPxuBeb

[Xata 🦋 @xata]

What you trade for it: one more system to run, a replication slot to watch, and some lag. The post covers the RDS settings that trip people up and how to anonymize PII on the way in.

https://t.co/RkpzVEXVm0

[Xata 🦋 @xata]

You don't have to migrate production to branch it.

Stream it into a mirror with pgstream, then branch the mirror. Production stays on RDS and gains one replication slot.

[Xata 🦋 @xata]

A branch is frozen at the moment you create it. The mirror keeps following production; the branch doesn't move.

Wreck it, delete it, branch again from current data. Each agent or CI run starts from an identical copy.

[Xata 🦋 @xata]

Let your agent dig through production-sized data without touching production.

xata scratch gives you a throwaway branch for one query, test run or migration, then deletes it.

[Xata 🦋 @xata]

pg_dump vs copy-on-write branching, in two minutes.

One copies every row. The other only copies the blocks you change.

[Xata 🦋 @xata]

Your agent doesn't need access to your production database.

Give it a branch instead. Here's the Xata CLI setup, start to finish.

[Xata 🦋 @xata]

You don't have to move your Postgres to get branches.

Stay on RDS or Cloud SQL. `xata clone stream` follows the source through logical replication, and you branch the copy in Xata.

Production stays where it is.

[Xata 🦋 @xata]

A read-only user lets you look at production data. It doesn't let you try anything.

xata scratch gives you a throwaway branch for one query, test run or migration, then deletes it.