Database Branching for Dev, Staging, and Prod

Xata lets teams deploy database changes quickly and without downtime. Test features in isolated environments, deploy a multi-tenant architecture, and roll back schema changes easily. Xata's branching capabilities ensure safe, seamless deployments–whether in production or testing.

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How Xata enhances blue-green deployments with minimal downtime

Near-zero downtime blue-green deployments

Xata’s blue-green deployment strategy ensures deployments with minimal downtime. With our SQL proxy and branching system, you can seamlessly switch traffic when doing a major version upgrade, moving between regions or performing maintenance without disrupting your users – reducing the risk of service interruptions during updates.

Simplify complex migration processes

With Xata, you can safely manage major version upgrades or schema changes by testing them in a separate branch before merging to production. This reduces the risk of administrative tasks, and in the case of schema migrations, applies smooth rollbacks if needed.

Isolated testing environments

Xata allows you to create isolated branches for testing new features or migrations without impacting live production data. This lets you experiment, develop, and validate changes safely in your testing environments, minimizing risks during development cycles.

Handle schema changes safely

Xata enables flexible rules for managing data across different schema versions during migrations. Using the expand/contract pattern, you can define how data is handled between old and new branches, ensuring safe transitions and minimizing errors during deployments.

Accelerate and streamline deployment workflows

Xata’s branching system gives teams the flexibility to work independently on multiple branches, speeding up development and reducing bottlenecks in the deployment process. This results in faster, more efficient releases.

Full visibility into database changes

Xata offers complete visibility into changes made to your PostgreSQL database. You can view the complete schema history, understanding exactly what changes may have impacted your end users.

The whole branching system and the schema editor is pretty much brilliant.
- Ilia Gandelman - Senior Software Developer, Israel


Key features of Xata’s branching solution

Environment branching

Create isolated environments for each stage of development. Run tests, migrations, or feature changes independently.

Upgrades without interruptions

Xata’s blue-green deployment strategy allows seamless transitions between major database versions and environments with no downtime. You can easily move databases between regions, instances and perform maintenance tasks like backups and scaling without impacting live services.

Multi-version schema migrations

Xata enables safe, multi-version schema migrations using the expand/contract pattern. This approach allows you to roll out schema changes in phases, ensuring compatibility across different versions and minimizing disruption during upgrades.

CI/CD pipeline integration

Xata integrates with GitHub, enabling Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) workflows. Automate testing, deployments, and preview database branches, allowing your team to review changes before pushing to production. This improves team collaboration for smoother, more reliable deployments.


Postgres major version upgradeswith minimal downtime

Demo by Xata tech lead, Carlos, showing how major version Postgres upgrades can be done in Xata within under 100ms downtime.

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