CompareDigitalOcean
Your databasemostly waits.
DigitalOcean bills the waiting too, hour after hour, and a copy of your data means a whole new cluster. BataDB sleeps through the waiting and branches your data in one command.
Side by side
What's in the box.
Every plan gets branching and point-in-time restore, Free included. Your agents get the same CLI and MCP server you do.
| Feature | BataDB | DigitalOcean |
|---|---|---|
| Scale to zero | Yes: After 5 idle minutes | No: Bills around the clock |
| Branches with your data | Yes: Copy-on-write, one command | Partly: Restore to a new cluster |
| No branch fees | Yes: None | No: Full cluster price |
| Point-in-time restore | Yes: Up to 30 days, included | Yes: 7 days |
| Connection pooling | Yes: Built in | Yes: Built in |
| CLI with JSON output | Yes: --json on every API command | Yes: doctl --output json |
| MCP server | Yes: 128 tools | Yes: Hosted |
| One-command import | Yes: bata import | Partly: Dump and restore |
The bill
Watch the idle hours add up.
We priced the same workload on BataDB and on DigitalOcean, then let the month run.
One small database, busy two hours a day and idle the rest.
- BataDBPay as you go$0.58 a month
- DigitalOcean1 GiB node$15.15 a month
Saved against DigitalOcean, every month
$14.5796% less
The bigger workloads run on our Team plan: $69 a month with 5,000 compute-hours included.
Talk to usMove
Moving over takes one command.
bata import copies your database from DigitalOcean into a new BataDB project, then checks row counts and sequences on both sides.
npm install -g @batadata/clibata loginbata import --source "$DO_DATABASE_URL" --name my-app- Use the cluster's direct connection details, not a connection pool's.
- Add your IP to the cluster's trusted sources. SSL is required.