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24 alternatives to Announcing the FaunaDB Add-On for Netlify
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FaunaDB is a serverless database add-on for Netlify that allows developers to store and manage data for their web applications. It integrates directly with Netlify's platform, enabling developers building serverless… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Announcing the FaunaDB Add-On for Netlify launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2017 · fauna.com · its alternatives →
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Hey there HN! We’re Joe and Stopa, and today we’re open sourcing InstantDB, a client-side database that makes it easy to build real-time and collaborative apps like Notion and Figma. Building modern apps these days involves a lot of schleps. For a basic CRUD app you need to spin up servers, wire up endpoints, integrate auth, add permissions, and then marshal data from the backend to the frontend and back again. If you want to deliver a buttery smooth user experience, you’ll need to add optimistic updates and rollbacks. We do these steps over and over for every feature we build, which can…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · fauna.com · its alternatives →
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🔥 🔥 🔥 A Free & Self-hostable Airtable Alternative. Contribute to nocodb/nocodb development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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SereneDBfree▲262Ultra-Fast Search & Analytics Database, Agentic AI ready
Sep 2026 · serenedb.com · its alternatives →
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InstantDB▲320Complete backend with auth and storage in one prompt
Apr 2026 · instantdb.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I’ve written a bunch of WebSocket servers over the years to do simple things like state synchronization, WebRTC signaling, and notifying a client when a backend job was run. I realized that if I had a simple way to create a private, temporary, mini-redis that the client could talk to directly, it would save a lot of time. So we created DriftDB. In addition to the open source server that you can run yourself, we also provide https://jamsocket.live where you can use an instance we host on Cloudflare’s edge (~13ms round trip latency from my home in NY). You may have seen my…
2023 · driftdb.com · its alternatives →
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PlanetScale▲215The MySQL-compatible serverless database platform
2021 · planetscale.com · its alternatives →
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PlanetScale Beta▲271The last database you'll ever need. Go from idea to IPO.
2021 · planetscale.com · its alternatives →
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Bunny Database▲244The content delivery platform that truly hops.
Feb 2026 · bunny.net · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, we want to share HelixDB (https://github.com/HelixDB/helix-db/), a project a college friend and I are working on. It’s a new database that natively intertwines graph and vector types, without sacrificing performance. It’s written in Rust and our initial focus is on supporting RAG. Here’s a video runthrough: https://screen.studio/share/szgQu3yq. Why a hybrid? Vector databases are useful for similarity queries, while graph databases are useful for relationship queries. Each stores data in a way that’s best for its main type of query (e.g.…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Simple online database service in the cloud with NoSQL, REST API, low code javascript hooks, MongoDB support and more. Perfect for API automation, custom development, enterprise, backoffice, serverless backends, database driven websites. It provides easy collaboration and data management with secure
2016 · restdb.io · its alternatives →
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Create with AI or code, deploy instantly on production infrastructure. One platform to build and ship.
2015 · netlify.com · its alternatives →
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A decentralised database with MongoDB-like developer interface (Fully Compatible with OrbitDB) - aviondb/aviondb
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi! Xata was on HackerNews once before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28590816) a bit over a year ago, when we were at the beginning of our development. We've promised we're going to do a Show HN page when we come out of Private Beta, and this just happened today. Xata is a product in the serverless database space. We know that the space is fairly crowded now, with lots of great companies started recently. We're happy to see a fresh wave of database products, that are focused more on the developer experience, rather than a race to the bottom on performance and cost. We…
2022 · xata.io · its alternatives →
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Turn your static pages into dynamic experiences
2024 · netlify.com · its alternatives →
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HelixDB▲105An open-source OLTP graph-vector database built in Rust.
Feb 2026 · helix-db.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! My name is Paras and I am building this project called Slashbase. It's an open-source collaborative IDE for databases in browser. Connect to your database, browse data, run a bunch of queries or share queries within your team, right from your browser. Works with two types of databases: PostgreSQL and MongoDB. It's written in Golang and Nextjs React Framework and runs as a single binary. Features: - Cloud based: Setup on your server. Works in browser. - Easy to use: with minimal interface it is simple to use. - Collaborative: Works with your teams. Easy sharing queries within team.…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · easydb.io · its alternatives →
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Distributed NoSQL Database. Contribute to stephenmcd/curiodb development by creating an account on GitHub.
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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IronDB is now ImmortalDB: https://github.com/gruns/ImmortalDB - gruns/irondb
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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