Reduce the number of services you manage and securely attach files — images, documents, binaries, and more — directly to a database record. With a fully integrated CDN and on-the-fly transformations, file support is as simple as adding a new column ⚡
Hey everyone! Alex here, head of product at Xata, a serverless database platform
powered by PostgreSQL. Today we're excited to announce our latest addition to the platform, file attachments. Since Xata's inception, file attachments has always been part of our vision and we're really excited to finally get this release out there 🚀 🦋 📎
Both files and relational data are ubiquitous in today's applications. Even the most basic scenarios generally require both structured relational data and file storage. Think about a blog which uses both posts metadata and images, a product catalogue or a document library. They all require basic data record management and query capabilities, as well as storage and access to large files like images, videos, and documents.
Engineers typically use a relational database with a separate storage service to store the data used by their application. In most cases the files are related to the relational data, therefore the common pattern is to store a file link in the database. This experience adds unnecessary friction and we saw an opportunity to simplify. Because file storage use cases are so closely correlated to data, we decided to embed file attachments directly into our serverless database and bring a new experience for building data apps that require file storage.
Think of it as having a new database column type where you can store files of any size, and behind the scenes they are stored in AWS S3 and cached through a global CDN. Files simply become a part of a database record. For example, they respect the same security boundary -- if you can access a record, you can also access its attached files. Image file types also get some extra functionality allowing you to request them at any size and style with built-in transformations. With file attachments, we aim to simplify your application architecture and reduce the number of services you need to manage.
We're really excited about this release in general, but even more so to to celebrate with the Product Hunt community! If you'd like to dig deeper, you can read more about the feature and implementation details in this blog post, check out our docs and get started with an example app. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for your support today ❤️
About File attachments by Xata on Product Hunt
“Attach files and images directly to your database”
File attachments by Xata launched on Product Hunt on September 8th, 2023 and earned 141 upvotes and 25 comments, placing #10 on the daily leaderboard. Reduce the number of services you manage and securely attach files — images, documents, binaries, and more — directly to a database record. With a fully integrated CDN and on-the-fly transformations, file support is as simple as adding a new column ⚡
On the analytics side, File attachments by Xata competes within Developer Tools, Tech and Database — topics that collectively have 1.1M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how File attachments by Xata performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted File attachments by Xata?
File attachments by Xata was hunted by Alex Francoeur. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Reviews
File attachments by Xata has received 7 reviews on Product Hunt with an average rating of 5.00/5. Read all reviews on Product Hunt.
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