Nile

About Nile

Nile is a Postgres database that enables all database operations per customer, including auto-scaling, branching, backups, and insights, with full customer isolation. Place customers in any region on serverless or dedicated computers, with the cost, efficiency and developer experience of a single, scalable database.

With Nile’s native tenant-isolation, each tenant’s data remains private and secure - with access enforced at the database layer, preventing simple typos from becoming security incidents. Changing your app? Schema migrations are automatically and transactionally distributed to all tenants in any computer and region. Need to run a business report across all tenants? Connect to Nile as a developer and run any query as-if all tenants are in a single database.

With Nile’s integration for Netlify, you can provision a database in a single click - for any project, site, environment or branch. Or connect your Netlify-deployed application to any existing database. Nile databases are free, so you can create as many as you’d like.

Use cases:

B2B applications (SaaS)

Nile was developed for multi-tenant applications, and will allow you to secure your customer’s data and operate at any scale - easily and cost-effectively.

RAG-based applications

Grounded AI applications like chatbots, search engines, and recommendations rely on vector embeddings for retrieving relevant documents. Storing and searching these embeddings can be challenging due to privacy requirements, combining them with related metadata, and scaling to millions of embeddings. Nile solves this by storing vectors in a relational database and isolating embeddings per tenant, ensuring privacy, easy joins with application data and making it easy to scale. Millions of embeddings is difficult. Thousand customers with a few thousand embeddings each is very manageable.
NextJS and other frontend/backend frameworks

NextJS framework provides a unified developer experience when implementing and deploying frontend and backend parts of an application. These webapps typically use a database for customer data and personalization. Nile, as a serverless database, can be a great fit - together you can build and deploy completely serverless B2B applications. This means zero operational overhead for your app.

Serverless Functions

Netlify supports deployments of serverless functions in a large range of languages and frameworks. Backend functions typically require a database - for customer data and personalization. Nile, as a serverless database, can be a great fit - together you can build and deploy completely serverless B2B applications. This means zero operational overhead for your app.

Developer, test and preview environments

Nile databases are free. We charge for traffic, but millions of queries a month per database are free at any tier - which means that developer environments will not face any charges. Sharing databases between developers can lead to a mess - much cleaner to create new databases whenever needed. And if you messed something up? Just create another.