A real SQL database for your app, with a console to look inside it.
PostgreSQL 17 on our managed cluster: a connection string for your app, a read-only browser and SQL editor in your dashboard, storage quotas that warn before they bite, and nightly backups we have actually restored.
PostgreSQL 17 + pooler + TLS
In practice
Your app outgrows a file database.
PocketBase is the right default and most apps should stay there. But once you need joins across tables, real reporting, constraints the database enforces, or data that has to survive a machine failure, you need SQL. Managed PostgreSQL gives you that without becoming your own DBA.
Revenue by month, customers by region, invoices joined to orders — queries a file database cannot express.
Point an existing Django, Rails, Laravel or Spring app at a connection string and run its migrations.
A streaming standby with tested promotion is the only real path to high availability, and it needs Postgres.
Open the database in TablePlus or DBeaver, inspect a slow query, fix a row — from your own machine.
Why CM Cloud
Built to do more.
Copy DATABASE_URL into your app's environment and redeploy. It goes through a connection pooler, which is what keeps the database usable while your app scales and redeploys — no connection-limit surprises on a busy afternoon.
Browse tables, page through rows, and run SELECT statements from your dashboard. The console is read-only by construction, so nothing you click there can change or delete your data.
Turn on external access and connect with psql, TablePlus, DBeaver or anything else that speaks PostgreSQL. The endpoint requires TLS. It is off by default, because your app does not need it.
A dump of your database every night into offsite storage. We restore from that backup and check the rows come back — a backup nobody has restored is a hope, not a plan.
Who it's for
Managed PostgreSQL is the right fit if you need:
How it works
Up and running in three steps.
Included, not an add-on
Protected against attacks from the first day
Automated attacks sweep the web constantly, looking for any site running common software. Yours is watched for them around the clock — and every part of this is in your plan already, at no additional cost.