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Data Services includes fully managed data products for storing, managing, indexing, and querying application data for operational workloads, search and retrieval, and AI use cases.

DigitalOcean Knowledge Bases

Store, index, and retrieve data from files, websites, and Spaces buckets to power retrieval-augmented generation.

DigitalOcean Vector Databases

DigitalOcean Vector Databases let you store and search vector embeddings for retrieval-augmented generation, semantic search, and other AI workloads, using Weaviate, OpenSearch, or PostgreSQL as the underlying engine.

Managed Databases

Run fully managed database clusters running your choice of database engine and avoid manual setup and maintenance.

DigitalOcean Data Services provides fully managed data products that help you run application databases, support similarity search and AI retrieval workflows, and build retrieval-augmented generation experiences with your own content. You can use Data Services without handling infrastructure setup, scaling, patching, backups, or ongoing maintenance yourself.

Data Services includes the following product types:

• Managed Databases: Fully managed databases for storing and operating on structured application data.
• DigitalOcean Vector Databases: Fully managed vector databases for storing embeddings and powering semantic search, similarity search, and other AI workloads.
• DigitalOcean Knowledge Bases: Retrieval-ready data stores that let you ingest your own content and use it for retrieval-augmented generation and other AI experiences.

Latest Updates

Upcoming Changes

• DigitalOcean Managed Caching is being discontinued on 30 June 2025.

  To replace Managed Caching, we are offering Managed Valkey, a Redis-compatible alternative with RDMA and higher throughput. All existing Managed Caching clusters automatically convert to Valkey clusters by 30 June 2025 during your upgrade window, retaining all data.

28 April 2026

• DigitalOcean Knowledge Base retrieval is now available through a DigitalOcean MCP server.

• DigitalOcean Knowledge Bases are now generally available in Data Services, letting you store, index, and retrieve data for AI applications.

• Data Services is now generally available, providing managed databases and knowledge bases for storing, indexing, and retrieving application data.

• Data Services now lets you retrieve data from DigitalOcean Knowledge Bases using the Control Panel with semantic, keyword, or hybrid searches, apply filters, review retrieved chunks, and copy live code examples. For more information, see Test Knowledge Bases.

• Data Services now supports reranking for DigitalOcean Knowledge Bases to improve the relevance of retrieved results before they’re returned or used in generated responses. For more information, see Create Knowledge Bases and Test Knowledge Bases.

• RAG Playground is now available in DigitalOcean Knowledge Bases. It lets you run queries against a knowledge base and test how a serverless inference model generates answers from retrieved content.

  For more information, see the Data Services Features page.

• The following embeddings models are now available on Data Services for DigitalOcean Knowledge Bases:

  • E5 Large (v2)

  For more information, see the Available Models page.

• The following Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) reranking model is now available on Data Services for DigitalOcean Knowledge Bases:

  • BGE Reranker (v2) M3

  For more information, see the Available Models page.

• The following embeddings models are now available on Data Services for DigitalOcean Knowledge Bases:

  • BGE M3

  For more information, see the Available Models page.

27 April 2026

• DigitalOcean Managed Weaviate is now in private preview. Opted-in customers can provision Weaviate clusters in the TOR1 region in Small, Medium, and Large plans through the dedicated DigitalOcean Vector Databases API at /v2/vector-databases. Clusters are reachable over port 443 for both HTTP and gRPC and support configurable quantization (rq, pq, bq, or sq) for the vector index.

  During preview, cluster management is API-only. Preview clusters are not billed and are not covered by a paid support SLA. APIs, SKUs, regions, and Control Panel elements may change before general availability. For setup and usage guidance, see Managed Weaviate.

• DigitalOcean Vector Databases is now generally available in Data Services that groups managed engines for vector similarity search. The launch includes:

  • Weaviate in private preview for retrieval-augmented generation and semantic search workloads. Available to opted-in customers; preview clusters are not billed.
  • OpenSearch with the k-NN, ML Commons, and Neural Search plugins for hybrid (vector plus keyword) search and remote embedding models. Uses the existing Managed Databases OpenSearch engine.
  • PostgreSQL with the vector (pgvector) and vectorscale (pgvectorscale) extensions for vector similarity search alongside relational data.

  For an overview and guidance on choosing an engine, see Vector Databases.

5 November 2025

• PostgreSQL 18 is now available for database clusters. You can upgrade earlier versions of PostgreSQL clusters to newer versions without any downtime using the DigitalOcean Control Panel.

For more information, see the full release notes.