Netlify Database

Netlify Database is the managed Postgres product built into the Netlify platform. It is GA and is the default choice for any dynamic data in a Netlify project.

Install @netlify/database and Netlify auto-provisions a Postgres database for the site at deploy time. Each deploy preview gets its own isolated branch forked from production data. No Neon account, connection-string wiring, or claim flow — the database is a first-class Netlify primitive.

Database vs Blobs

Use Netlify Database for anything dynamic:

• Any user-generated or app-generated records (posts, comments, orders, sessions, audit logs)
• Structured data that will grow, be queried, or be joined
• Key-value-style data read or written by application code at runtime

Use Netlify Blobs only for file and asset storage: images, documents, exports, uploads, cached binary artifacts. Do not use Blobs as a dynamic data store — reach for Database instead. See netlify-blobs/SKILL.md.

Before you build

If the prompt didn't already specify, ask the user a few short questions before scaffolding any database code — answers shape the schema, the seed data, and the query layer: