What is Nearbase?
Nearbase is a managed PostgreSQL service focused on Asia and the Middle East. It runs across 10 regions including Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Manila, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Dubai, and Virginia, with sub 10 millisecond latency advertised in major population centers. Provisioning, backups, patching, and failover are handled by the service so teams focus on application code.
Why Nearbase works
Major cloud Postgres options concentrate on US and EU regions, leaving Asia and Middle East apps with high round trip times or compliance gaps. Nearbase puts managed Postgres in regional data centers close to those users with PDPA, PDPO, and PIPL data residency support, so teams cut latency and meet local rules without running their own database operations.
Nearbase features
- Regional coverage across Asia. Ten regions including Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Manila, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Dubai, and Virginia let teams place the database close to users.
- Independent auto scaling. CPU, memory, and storage scale independently with zero downtime as load grows.
- Managed reliability. 99.99 percent uptime SLA with automated backups, patching, and failover removes operational toil.
- Data residency compliance. PDPA, PDPO, and PIPL support keeps data inside specific countries to meet local requirements.
- Encrypted by default. Data is encrypted at rest and in transit with enterprise grade isolation.
- Transparent pricing calculator. A pricing calculator lets teams estimate cost before signing up, with no hidden fees.
Who Nearbase is for
- Engineering leads at Southeast Asian SaaS startups who currently host on US AWS and lose latency on every API call.
- Fintech teams operating in Hong Kong, Singapore, or Dubai with strict data residency obligations.
- Game studios serving Japanese or Korean players who need single digit millisecond database round trips.
- Backend engineers running side projects who want managed Postgres in a region close to their users without paying RDS prices.
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