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Last verified 1 Jul 2026
DigitalOcean Managed Weaviate is a fully managed Weaviate vector database for retrieval-augmented generation, semantic search, and similarity-based AI workloads. Clusters are provisioned, secured, backed up, and patched by DigitalOcean.
Managed Weaviate is in public preview. Create clusters from the Vector Databases page and select Weaviate as the engine.
Each Managed Weaviate cluster includes:
- Weaviate 1.37.4: Clusters run version
1.37.4. DigitalOcean upgrades the engine on a managed cadence, and new clusters are always provisioned on the latest supported version. See How DigitalOcean Manages Weaviate Version Upgrades. - Open-source Weaviate API: REST, GraphQL, and gRPC endpoints. Official clients for Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, and Java work without modification. See the client libraries overview.
- Hybrid search: Combine vector similarity and BM25 keyword relevance in a single query using the hybrid search API.
- Automatic backups: Daily backups with a seven day retention period. See How to Restore Weaviate Clusters from Backups.
- Fork clusters: Create a new cluster from an existing cluster at a specific point in time. See How to Fork Weaviate Clusters.
- Insights and logs: Monitor cluster performance and review cluster logs from the Control Panel. See How to Monitor Weaviate Clusters.
- Credential rotation: Reset the cluster admin API token from the Control Panel. See How to Rotate Weaviate Credentials.
- Tags: Organize clusters for billing and reporting. See How to Tag Weaviate Clusters.
- TLS by default: All connections are secured over HTTPS (port 443) for both HTTP and gRPC.
For a side-by-side comparison of Weaviate, OpenSearch, and PostgreSQL with pgvector, see Choosing an engine.
For measured throughput and latency on each tier, see Weaviate benchmarks.