Introducing Xata OSS: Postgres platform with branching, now Apache 2.0

Xata is a cloud-native Postgres platform with the following highlights: Fast branching using Copy-on-Write at the storage level. You can “copy” TB of data in a matter of seconds. Except they are lightweight copies that happen instantly and take very little extra disk space. Scale-to-zero functionality, so inactive databases don’t cost you compute. Together with the previous point, this makes Postgres branches almost free. 100% Vanilla Postgres. We took a bit of a different path compared with Neon or Aurora: we run vanilla Postgres without any modifications. The branching functionality happens at the underlying storage layer (tech details below). All the production grade requirements: high availability, read replicas, automatic failover/switchover, upgrades, backups with PITR, IP filtering, etc Xata’s customers use it in two major ways: For creating preview and testing environments quickly and with real data. As a fully-managed PostgreSQL service to run the production d