Meet Xata. A startup that offers a fresh approach to managed databases. The company will manage your database and turn it into an API, so you can query it and update it from your serverless application. Xata raised $5 million in funding. Although the product isn't yet ready to go, the company is sharing information.
Jamstack websites seem to be particularly well suited to Xata. Jamstack is a popular method of building and deploying websites on a large scale. Cloudflare Pages, Vercel, and Netlify are all popular Jamstack hosting platforms.
Apps are deployed over a global edge network, and the majority of the logic is handled via API calls. This results in a website or application that loads quickly and can handle large amounts of traffic.
Jamstack makes it easy to deploy a website. It often integrates with your Git repository. Serverless platforms handle the deployment of your application when you commit code changes. Integration with API-based developer tools can be done quickly and efficiently, as long as you don't manage the logic.
It is easy to deploy a website with static content, and Stripe's checkout module. Stripe handles the payment servers. If you need to interact with a live database, it can get a little more difficult. The traditional database software does not rely on API calls from the internet to add rows, search through multiple row and find data.
Xata is primarily focused on databases and wants to make it simpler to integrate a database into your serverless application. Xata will scale your database so you don't have to worry about it. It's not necessary to update software or move data to new servers.
To improve redundancy and response time, your database is distributed across multiple data centres. It can handle many data types, including images. The database can then be accessed as any other RESTful API.
This startup also draws inspiration from other no-code startups like Airtable. Your database can be accessed via a web browser. You can interact directly with your data from there. You can filter the current view and sort data according to a particular criteria. Additionally, you can get an API query that can be used in your code.
A free text search can be used to search your database if you have a lot of data. Xata can be used to create charts and visualizations.
Xata's competitive advantage is the ability to interact directly with your data via a web browser. Airtable is used by many companies to prototype new projects. Xata could become a production-ready version of this Airtable-as-a-backend data management model.
Index Ventures led the $5 million round. Operator Collective, SV Angel and X-Factor were also involved. A few business angels such as Uri Boness and Shay Banon from Elastic, Neha Narkhede of Confluent and Guillermo Rauch, from Vercel, Elad Gil from Color Genomics, Christian Bach, and Mathias Biilmann, also participated.
Monica Sarbu, who was previously the Director of Engineering at Elastic, founded the startup. She probably has some knowledge about scaling databases.
