Managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, Valkey, MongoDB, Kafka and ClickHouse. Backups with point-in-time recovery, pooling and private networking in the plan price, HA from a flat +70%, and we migrate you off RDS free, with zero downtime.
Either you run it yourself and it pages you at night, or you pay someone and the managed bill arrives with ten line items you didn't order. Raff was built against both.
Every row on the left is a page you won't get. You keep the schema; we keep the pager.
One line. Backups, PITR, pooling, private networking and egress are in the price, not on the bill, and HA is a flat +70%, not a silent second instance.
Relational, cache, documents, streams and analytics: same console, same flat pricing, same private fabric. No second vendor for Kafka, no third for ClickHouse.
Eight things that show up as extra line items, paid tiers or surprise multipliers elsewhere. Here they're just how a database ships.
Use it from any host over TLS with IP allowlists. And if your app runs on Raff Apps, one click creates a virtual link: a private, encrypted wire straight from the service to the cluster. No connection strings pasted around, no public hop, $0 egress.
Pick a plan and watch the same cluster priced on Raff, AWS RDS and DigitalOcean, HA multipliers and typical extras included.
Plus egress on top: AWS and Supabase $0.09/GB (Supabase after 250 GB), DigitalOcean metered. Raff fabric egress: $0.
Competitor figures are modeled on each provider's published pricing (compute, storage, HA multipliers, typical egress and IOPS extras), gathered Jul 2026. Re-verify before relying on them.
Where each provider lands on the parts of managed that usually cost extra. Supabase is Postgres-only by design.
| RaffBest | AWS RDS | DigitalOcean | Supabase | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Databases under one roof | All 6 | Relational only | 5 engines | Postgres only |
| HA standby + failover | From +70% | 2× compute | 2× compute | Higher tiers |
| PITR (restore to any minute) | Included | Storage billed | Included | Paid add-on |
| Connection pooling | Built-in | RDS Proxy $$ | PgBouncer incl. | Included |
| Egress to your Raff app | $0 | $0.09/GB | Metered | 250 GB then paid |
| Private link to your app | 1 click | VPC setup | VPC setup | N/A |
| Query insights | Included | Paid tier | Basic | Included |
| Billing dimensions | 1–2 | 6–10 | 2 | 4+ |
| Spend cap on by default | Yes | No | Alerts only | Partial |
| Zero-downtime migration help | Free | DMS (DIY) | Self-serve | Self-serve |
| Runs on own cloud | Yes | Yes | Yes | Resells AWS |
| Starts at | $7.99/mo | ~$12/mo + storage | $15/mo | $25/mo |
Competitor rows reflect each provider's published pricing, docs and default plan limits, gathered Jul 2026. Re-verify before relying on them.
Point Raff at your current provider and continuous replication keeps your new database in sync while the source stays live. When lag reads zero, you cut over: in seconds, not a weekend.
Point Raff at your AWS, DigitalOcean, Supabase or self-hosted database with a read-only replication user. Nothing changes on your side.
Continuous replication streams every write to your new Raff cluster while the source stays live. Watch the lag counter fall to zero.
Flip the connection string, or the virtual link if your app is on Raff. Writes land on Raff; the old bill stops.
Query insights, live metrics and log tails are in the console and the CLI, not a paid observability tier. One command provisions, one shows you exactly which query is eating the CPU.
A public status page for the database fleet, an SLA with credits, and restores we actually test, because a backup you've never restored is a rumor.
Managed Databases run on the same first-party cloud as the rest of Raff, and everything below connects over the private fabric.
High availability adds a standby copy of your database that takes over automatically if the main one fails. It costs a fixed percentage of the plan price, from +70% depending on the database, and you see the full cost on the same single bill line before you turn it on.
One line per database: the database you chose and its size, for example Postgres 4 GB. Backups, networking, traffic and monitoring are already inside that price, there is no separate fee for any of them. If you turn on high availability, it adds a fixed percentage to that same line. The only extra line you can ever see is more storage, at a flat price per GB.
Yes, it is a standalone product. Connect from anywhere over TLS with IP allowlists and scoped credentials (Kafka is the one private-only exception, by design). If your app runs on Raff Apps, the one-click virtual link adds a private wire with $0 egress on top.
Postgres and MySQL record every change as it happens, so you can restore to any minute in the retention window. A restore creates a new database first, so you can check the data before you switch over. Valkey and ClickHouse restore from their latest snapshots and backups instead.
We keep a live copy of your current database in sync while it keeps running. When the copy is fully caught up, you switch the connection, usually in under 30 seconds. An engineer runs the whole thing with you, free.
PostgreSQL 14 to 16 with pgvector, PostGIS and the common extension set; MySQL 8.0; Valkey (Redis-compatible); ClickHouse 25.8 LTS; Apache Kafka 4.3 in KRaft mode. MongoDB is rolling out next. Minor upgrades are automatic and zero-downtime.
A public status page, a 99.9% uptime SLA with credits, daily backups with tested restores, encryption in transit and at rest, ISO 27001 certification, and it all runs on Raff's own first-party cloud, so we own the reliability story end to end.
Six databases, backups included, and a bill you can read in one line. Provision a cluster in 60 seconds, or let us migrate yours for free.
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