Xata

Xata provides instant, copy-on-write branches of your Postgres database, allowing developers and AI agents to work safely on isolated and anonymized copies of production data. This eliminates the need for slow, expensive staging replicas and enables faster development cycles with higher confidence in deployments. The product is designed for teams building at scale, addressing challenges like zero-downtime schema changes, testing with realistic yet anonymized data, and cost-efficient ephemeral environments. Xata is 100% compatible with modern Postgres and popular extensions, offering flexible deployment options including on their platform or in your own cloud account (AWS, Azure, GCP). Its core value lies in enabling developers to branch instantly, develop with real (anonymized) data, and ship with confidence, while minimizing costs through copy-on-write storage and scale-to-zero compute for dev branches.