Who ElastiCluster is for, and who it isn’t
ElastiCluster is built for people who run databases on their own Linux servers and want what a managed database
gives them: failover, backups, monitoring and safe changes, without handing the servers to someone else.
Built for
- Small teams on a VPS, dedicated servers or their own hardware You want a highly available PostgreSQL, maybe Valkey and object storage, with backups you have tested, but you don’t want to become a full-time DBA or run Kubernetes to get there.
- Platform and SRE teams building an internal database platform You want developers to get databases on company servers by themselves, within policies, approvals and quotas, with single sign-on, an audit trail and an API.
- Developers who work with an AI assistant You live in Claude Code or Cursor and want to ask “why is orders-db slow?” or “add a replica” and get a safe, reviewable answer instead of a shell command.
Probably not for you if
- Your whole platform runs on Kubernetes
- A Kubernetes operator such as CloudNativePG, StackGres or KubeBlocks fits that world better. A Kubernetes runtime for ElastiCluster is planned only after v1.0.
- You are happy paying for a managed cloud database
- Managed services such as Amazon RDS or Cloud SQL take the operational work off your hands entirely. ElastiCluster is for running databases on servers you control.
- You need a production system today
- ElastiCluster has no release yet; the first preview brings PostgreSQL high availability. Use an established tool now and come back later.
- You need sharding or cross-region synchronous replication
- Citus, MongoDB sharded clusters and synchronous clusters across regions are not part of v1.0.
- You run Windows servers or need MySQL itself
- Servers must run Linux, and the MySQL-compatible engine is MariaDB with Galera.
- You want schema-migration management
- ElastiCluster operates clusters; changes to your application’s schema stay with your migration tool.
For a side-by-side look at the different approaches, see alternatives.
Try the console before it ships
The interactive demo runs the whole console on simulated data. Trigger a failover, approve an AI assistant’s plan, restore a backup to a point in time. Nothing to install.