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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.

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.
• Vector Databases: Fully managed vector databases for storing embeddings and powering semantic search, similarity search, and other AI workloads.
• 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

• Beginning 15 October 2026 for accounts that have never created a PostgreSQL or MySQL database cluster and 30 November 2026 for all accounts, PostgreSQL and MySQL Standard Edition no longer offer plans with more than 4 GiB of RAM or support standby and read-only nodes. On 15 October 2026, Advanced Edition adds Basic - Shared CPU plans with 8 GiB to 64 GiB of RAM. Existing clusters are not affected.

  Learn more on PostgreSQL and MySQL Plan Changes Beginning 15 October 2026.

• Managed MySQL 8.0 database clusters are scheduled for forced upgrades to MySQL 8.4 beginning 30 October 2026 during each cluster’s maintenance window.

  Learn more on MySQL 8.0 End of Life and Forced Upgrades Beginning 30 October 2026.

6 October 2026

• PostgreSQL Advanced Edition clusters now support 20 additional extensions beyond the pre-installed pg_repack, pg_stat_statements, pgaudit, plpgsql, and vector extensions, including pg_trgm, pgcrypto, citext, and uuid-ossp. You can enable them with CREATE EXTENSION. See Supported PostgreSQL Extensions.

30 September 2026

• You can no longer install extensions on PostgreSQL Advanced Edition clusters with CREATE EXTENSION. The pre-installed pg_repack, pg_stat_statements, pgaudit, plpgsql, and vector extensions remain available. To request another extension, contact support. See Supported PostgreSQL Extensions.

28 September 2026

• Valkey 9 is now available for database clusters. New clusters use Valkey 9 by default. Valkey 8 remains available for new and existing clusters. For version support, see Valkey Limits.

For more information, see the full release notes.