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A $SERVICE_LONG is a single optimized $PG instance extended with innovations in the database engine and cloud infrastructure to deliver speed without sacrifice. A $SERVICE_LONG is 10-1000x faster at scale! It is ideal for applications requiring strong data consistency, complex relationships, and advanced querying capabilities. Get ACID compliance, extensive SQL support, JSON handling, and extensibility through custom functions, data types, and extensions.
Each $SERVICE_SHORT is associated with a project in $CLOUD_LONG. Each project can have multiple $SERVICE_SHORTs. Each user is a member of one or more projects.
You create free and standard $SERVICE_SHORTs in $CONSOLE_LONG, depending on your $PRICING_PLAN. A free $SERVICE_SHORT comes at zero cost and gives you limited resources to get to know $CLOUD_LONG. Once you are ready to try out more advanced features, you can switch to a paid plan and convert your free $SERVICE_SHORT to a standard one.
To the $PG you know and love, $CLOUD_LONG adds the following capabilities:
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Standard $SERVICE_SHORTs:
- Real-time analytics: store and query time-series data at scale for real-time analytics and other use cases. Get faster time-based queries with $HYPERTABLEs, $CAGGs, and columnar storage. Save money by compressing data into the $COLUMNSTORE, moving cold data to low-cost bottomless storage in Amazon S3, and deleting old data with automated policies.
- AI-focused: build AI applications from start to scale. Get fast and accurate similarity search with the pgvector and pgvectorscale extensions.
- Hybrid applications: get a full set of tools to develop applications that combine time-based data and AI.
All standard $SERVICE_LONGs include the tooling you expect for production and developer environments: live migration, automatic backups and PITR, high availability, $READ_REPLICAs, data forking, connection pooling, tiered storage, usage-based storage, secure in-$CONSOLE SQL editing, $SERVICE_SHORT metrics and insights, streamlined maintenance, and much more. $CLOUD_LONG continuously monitors your $SERVICE_SHORTs and prevents common $PG out-of-memory crashes.
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Free $SERVICE_SHORTs:
$PG with $TIMESCALE_DB and vector extensions
Free $SERVICE_SHORTs offer limited resources and a basic feature scope, perfect to get to know $CLOUD_LONG in a development environment.
You can manage, pause, or delete your $SERVICE_SHORT at any time from $CONSOLE.