Databases in one click.
The Era Scale provides one-click database provisioning and lifecycle management. Deploy production-ready database clusters with replication, backups, and monitoring — all managed through Dragon’s Eye.
| Feature | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1-Click Provisioning | Deploy a production-ready database instance in seconds. PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis. | Planned |
| Snapshots | Instant database snapshots via the Storage Scale. Point-in-time recovery. | Planned |
| Cloning | Clone a production database for development or testing in seconds. Copy-on-write, no additional storage until data diverges. | Planned |
| Automated Patching | Schedule database engine patches with automatic rollback on failure. | Planned |
| Replication | Configure primary-replica topologies through the UI. Automatic failover with the HA Scale. | Planned |
| Connection Pooling | Built-in connection pooling. No external pooler to deploy and manage. | Planned |
| Monitoring | Per-database metrics: queries per second, latency, connections, replication lag. Integrated with the Monitoring Scale. | Planned |
| Backup Integration | Automatic backup schedules with the Backup Scale. Application-aware snapshots for consistency. | Planned |
| Resource Management | CPU, memory, and I/O limits per database instance. No noisy neighbours. | Planned |
| Template Libraries | Pre-configured database templates for common workloads. Tuned for OLTP, OLAP, or mixed. | Planned |
Database operations consume a disproportionate amount of infrastructure team time. Provisioning, patching, backup, replication, failover — each requires specialist knowledge and careful execution.
Era makes these operations routine. A developer requests a PostgreSQL instance, gets it in seconds, and it comes with replication, backups, and monitoring already configured. The infrastructure team sets the policies; Era enforces them automatically.
One of Era’s most powerful features is instant database cloning. Need a copy of production for testing? Clone it. The clone is created instantly using copy-on-write — no data is physically copied until it’s modified. A 500GB production database clones in under a second and initially consumes zero additional storage.
This eliminates the “we can’t test against real data” problem without the “we can’t afford to copy production” constraint.