# Xata.io

> Xata.io is a San Francisco-based, remote-first database company building an open-source, cloud-native PostgreSQL platform around a deceptively practical idea: developers and coding agents should be able to work on realistic copies of production data without endangering production. Its system combines storage-level copy-on-write branches, scale-to-zero compute, data anonymization, zero-downtime schema changes, observability, and managed or bring-your-own-cloud deployment while keeping PostgreSQL unmodified.

- **Founded:** 2020
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Monica Sarbu (Founder and CEO)
- **Products:** Xata Cloud, Xata BYOC, Xata OSS, Xatastor, pgroll
- **Notable:** Raised $35 million across a $5 million seed round and $30 million Series A., Open-sourced the core Xata platform under Apache 2.0 in April 2026., Built pgroll, which has attracted more than 6,000 GitHub stars, and pgstream, which has attracted more than 1,000.

## Products & services

- **Xata Cloud** — Fully managed vanilla PostgreSQL with copy-on-write branching, scale-to-zero compute, observability, anonymization, and AWS/GCP regions.
- **Xata BYOC** — A managed deployment in the customer's AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud account with advanced compliance, dedicated support, and control over region and infrastructure.
- **Xata OSS** — Apache 2.0 open-source cloud-native PostgreSQL platform with branching and scale-to-zero for self-hosting.
- **Xatastor** — Xata's ZFS and NVMe-oF storage engine, optimized for very large numbers of mostly idle volumes and copy-on-write snapshots.
- **pgroll** — Open-source tool for zero-downtime, reversible PostgreSQL schema migrations by serving old and new schema versions together.
- **pgstream** — Open-source change-data-capture and replication tool that tracks DDL, takes snapshots, and can transform or anonymize columns in transit.
- **Xata Agent** — Open-source PostgreSQL monitoring and troubleshooting agent that diagnoses performance issues and suggests remedies; the original repository is now archived.

## Achievements

- Raised $35 million across a $5 million seed round and $30 million Series A.
- Open-sourced the core Xata platform under Apache 2.0 in April 2026.
- Built pgroll, which has attracted more than 6,000 GitHub stars, and pgstream, which has attracted more than 1,000.
- Reduced branch provisioning from more than 20 seconds to roughly 1-2 seconds using control-plane optimization and warm pools.
- Demonstrated an estimated compute cost of about $1 for 1,000 five-minute micro branches.
- Reported a 60% reduction in search time for customer HydroPro Solutions.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Released Xata MCP server 2.0 so coding agents can create, use, and delete isolated PostgreSQL branches without production credentials in model context.
- **2026-07** — Introduced the Xata GitHub App, which gives pull requests copy-on-write database branches, and launched the disposable xata scratch terminal workflow.
- **2026-06** — Cut typical branching time from more than 20 seconds to about 1-2 seconds and published the economics of 1,000 short-lived branches for roughly $1 in compute.
- **2026-04** — Released the core Xata platform under the Apache 2.0 license and detailed the Xatastor storage architecture.
- **2026-02** — Released pgstream 1.0 with stateless schema-change replication.

## Links

- Website: https://xata.io/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/xataio
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/xata
- GitHub: https://github.com/xataio
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@xataio
- Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/xata.io

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Last updated: 2026-09-28