Introducing Nearbase: Managed PostgreSQL Built for Asia

Today we’re launching Nearbase — managed PostgreSQL built for teams shipping products in Asia.

You can sign up and create your first database right now. It takes about 2 minutes.

Why we built this

Asia is home to some of the world’s fastest-growing technology markets. Singapore, Jakarta, Tokyo, Seoul, Bangkok — these cities have thriving developer communities building real products for real users. And those users expect fast, reliable software.

Yet most managed database providers were designed for a US or European audience. When they say “global”, they often mean three regions: US East, US West, and Frankfurt. Asia gets one region — usually Singapore — as an afterthought. Southeast Asia gets nothing. The Middle East barely exists.

The result is that developers building for Asian markets have two bad choices: use a database 200ms away from their users, or spend months navigating cloud vendor complexity to set up something closer. Neither is great.

We’ve been on both sides of this problem. Running databases on raw cloud infrastructure is genuinely painful — VPCs, security groups, parameter groups, patching schedules, backup policies, storage auto-scaling. It’s a full-time job. And when something goes wrong at 2am, you’re on your own.

Nearbase exists to fix that.

What Nearbase is

Nearbase is a managed PostgreSQL service. You create a database, you get a connection string, you connect. We handle operations, patching, backups, and failover. You handle your application.

Every driver, ORM, and tool that works with PostgreSQL works with Nearbase. There is nothing new to learn.

import pg from "pg";

const pool = new pg.Pool({
  connectionString: process.env.DATABASE_URL,
  // that's it — it's just PostgreSQL
});

We launched with 10 regions across Asia and the Middle East, with sub-10ms latency to users in every major Asian population center. Compliance with data residency laws like PDPA, PDPO, and PIPL is built in — your data stays in the region you choose.

Create your first database →

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We’re a small team and we’d love to hear from you. If you have questions, feedback, or feature requests, find us on Discord or email us directly.