EDDB turns one SQL Server backup into reusable base snapshots and isolated clone environments for dev, QA, support and release testing. No platform to babysit.
The problem
Every developer, QA run and support investigation deserves its own realistic SQL Server environment. Today that usually means slow full restores, a shared dev database everyone steps on, or a heavyweight internal platform nobody wants to maintain.
✕The old way
Hours of waiting for a restore every time someone needs a clean database, multiplied across the whole team.
✕The old way
Tests collide, data drifts, and nobody trusts the results. One bad write blocks everyone else.
✕The old way
Database virtualization suites, Kubernetes operators and SaaS control planes that cost more to run than the problem they solve.
How it works
Step 1
Point EDDB at a real SQL Server backup. It restores it one time and captures a reusable base snapshot with eddb base create.
Step 2
Each eddb clone create spins up a fully isolated SQL Server environment in seconds without a full restore.
Step 3
Every clone gets its own generated sa password, connection string and exposed host port. Verify isolation, run your work, then throw it away.
What you get
Every environment starts from the same trusted backup and stays fully independent.
Each clone ships with its own generated sa password and ready to paste connection string.
Clones expose real ports on the VM, so apps and tools connect exactly like any SQL Server.
Built in read and write connection checks demonstrate each clone really is its own environment.
One VM, one binary and local state you can read, back up and version yourself. No moving parts to babysit.
No web UI, no daemon, no API service, no Kubernetes and no external dependency to secure.
Who it serves
Every developer gets a realistic environment from the latest backup. Break it freely, recreate it in seconds.
Each test run starts from an identical, known good state. No more flaky tests caused by leftover data.
Reproduce a customer issue against real data in a sandbox that cannot touch production.
Rehearse migrations and releases against a production realistic clone before the real run.
Honest scope
EDDB is not trying to be an enterprise database virtualization platform. It does one job extremely well, and it is honest about where it fits today.
Focused support, tested against the engines teams actually run.
One node you control. Your data never leaves your infrastructure.
Scriptable, inspectable and friendly to CI pipelines from day one.
The entire system state lives on your VM. Read it, back it up, version it.
And no operators, charts or cluster upgrades that come with it.
Nothing phones home. There is no external service to trust or pay for.
Private beta
EDDB is in private beta with engineering teams that run SQL Server. Tell us about your setup and we will get you building clones this week.
Free during beta. We reply within one business day.