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24 alternatives to Baerly-storage, a document DB that runs per request, no DB server

Document database with no database server. Tiny, LLM-friendly TypeScript API; DB engine runs to completion in each JS request handler; state lives in S3/R2. - Gusto/baerly-storage

Baerly-storage is a document database designed to operate without requiring a separate database server, instead running on a per-request basis. It functions as a lightweight storage solution for developers who need… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    A SQL database implemented purely in TypeScript type annotations. - codemix/ts-sql

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A Modern GUI For S3

    2025 · tinybrief.app · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN - Peter from DBOS here with my co-founder Qian (qianl_cs) Today we want to share our TypeScript library for lightweight durable execution. We’ve been working on it since last year and recently released v2.0 with a ton of new features and major API overhaul. https://github.com/dbos-inc/dbos-transact-ts Durable execution means persisting the execution state of your program while it runs, so if it is ever interrupted or crashes, it automatically resumes from where it left off. Durable execution is useful for a lot of things: - Orchestrating long-running or…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! I built Typebase, a library that gives you Convex's DX with Supabase's openness. After trying Supabase I liked how fast it is to spin up a DB and auth, but really didn't like using RLS and SQL for authorization. With Convex I loved how your server "lives" in your code, but disliked the DB model and the realtime-first defaults. With Typebase you just write TS files inside a typebase/ folder in your existing repo. You can define your DB tables inside a schema.ts file and export server functions that your frontend calls like local functions, fully typed. Auth is built in. Then one…

    Aug 2026 · typebase.io · its alternatives →

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    Cross-browser storage for all use cases, used across the web. - marcuswestin/store.js

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Tonbo is an embedded database for serverless and edge runtimes. - tonbo-io/tonbo

    Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A strongly-typed document database that runs on any transactional key-value store. - losfair/RefineDB

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi! As I was working on a side project, I noticed I wanted to use SQLite like a Document Database on the server. So I built Doculite. DocuLite lets you use SQLite like Firebase Firestore. It's written in Typescript and an adapter on top of sqlite3 and sqlite. Reasons: 1) Using an SQL Database meant having less flexibility and iterating slower. 2) Alternative, proven Document Databases only offered client/server support. 3) No network. Having SQLite server-side next to the application is extremely fast. 4) Replicating Firestore's API makes it easy to use. 5) Listeners and real-time…

    2023 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →

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    :man: a simple, git diffable JSON database on yer filesystem. By the power of NodeJS - DO-SAY-GO/sirdb

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Unbounded▲149

    Serverless NoSQL database you query with JavaScript

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Pantry is a free, API based JSON storage solution for small projects. We help developers build projects quickly

    2020 · getpantry.cloud · its alternatives →

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    RipDB▲65

    Fast, decentralized key-value Store for web3 builders

    2022 · zdenham.github.io · its alternatives →

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    The most powerful type-safe SQL query builder for TypeScript

    2023 · kysely.dev · its alternatives →

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    We started CallFS after yet another late-night “why did the uploads vanish?” incident. Our small team had stitched together rsync, a fragile NFS mount, and an S3 bucket—none of it observable, all of it waiting to bite us. So we wrote a single-process file service in Go that: • Speaks the S3 API (so existing tooling works). • Stores hot data on local disks for speed; cold data can sit in any S3-compatible bucket. • Exposes Prometheus metrics and JSON logs by default, because “what happened?” shouldn’t be guesswork. • Ships as a ~25 MB static binary—no external deps, MIT license. Today it’s…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN! We’re excited to show you DBOS, a transactional serverless SDK and platform that makes it easy to write fault-tolerant, observable, and scalable TypeScript applications. We’re a startup commercializing research we did at Stanford and MIT. (https://dbos-project.github.io/). The main idea behind DBOS is to store EVERYTHING about your application in the database. This gives you some unique features: * Reliable execution – Your program’s execution state is stored in the database, so if it’s ever interrupted, it automatically resumes from where it left off without…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I created jendeley to help organize documents for programmers. - jendeley is JSON-based. You can see and edit your database quickly. - jendeley works locally. Your important database is owned only by you. No cloud. - jendeley is browser-based. You can run it anywhere node.js runs. Repository: https://github.com/akawashiro/jendeley

    2023 · akawashiro.github.io · its alternatives →

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    JSONBase▲118

    API based JSON storage

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    I had already posted the project a couple of years ago, and it gained some interest, but a lot of stuff has been done since then, especially regarding performance, a completely new JSON store, a REST API, various internals refactored, an improved JSONiq based query engine allowing updates, implementing set-oriented join optimizations, a now already dated web UI, a new Kotlin based CLI, a Python and TypeScript client to ease the use of Sirix... First prototypes from a precursor stem already from 2005. So, what is it all about? The system uses ideas from ZFS (a keyed index trie, storing…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    upscaledb - a blazingly fast embedded key-value store with analytical functions

    2016 · upscaledb.com · its alternatives →

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    Fast key-value DB in Go. Contribute to dgraph-io/badger development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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