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24 alternatives to Centia.io – Open PostgreSQL/PostGIS back end for developers

Built a developer-friendly BaaS around PostgreSQL + PostGIS. Instant APIs, real-time updates, self-hostable Docker image. Feedback welcome

Centia.io is a backend-as-a-service platform built on PostgreSQL and PostGIS for developers. It automatically generates APIs from database schemas and provides real-time updates without requiring manual setup. The… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

1
Hasura – Fast, instant GraphQL APIs on Postgres▲382
Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on all your data with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events. - hasura/graphql-engine
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
2QG
Quickly generate REST API (for Postgres db)▲70
2019 · its alternatives →
3
ob1 by Outerbase▲280
Generate APIs, databases, and your backend with a prompt.
2023 · its alternatives →
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Octo – Generate a serverless API from an SQL query▲241
2020 · octoproject.github.io · its alternatives →
5
Simpl.▲330
A pleasant Postgres browser for working with real data
Jan 2026 · simpl.sh · its alternatives →
6
Postgres as a VectorDB GUI▲162
Contribute to Z-Gort/Reservoirs-Lab development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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SnapQL – Desktop app to query Postgres with AI▲104
SnapQL is an open-source desktop app (built with Electron) that lets you query your Postgres database using natural language. It’s schema-aware, so you don’t need to copy-paste your schema or write complex SQL by hand. Everything runs locally — your OpenAI API key, your data, and your queries — so it's secure and private. Just connect your DB, describe what you want, and SnapQL writes and runs the SQL for you.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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GraphQL Centaur – GraphQL Generation tool for MongoDB Stucco▲28
😱 GraphQL Editor Official CLI - Generate and maintain GraphQL Backend and GraphQL Server - graphql-editor/graphql-editor-cli
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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GraphQL Centaur▲72
Generate GraphQL resolvers easily with GraphQL Centaur CLI
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
10
Postgres.js – Fastest Full-Featured PostgreSQL Client for Node and Deno▲257
Postgres.js - The Fastest full featured PostgreSQL client for Node.js, Deno, Bun and CloudFlare - porsager/postgres
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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GraphQL for Postgres▲195
GraphQL for Postgres. Contribute to solidsnack/GraphpostgresQL development by creating an account on GitHub.
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Vibecode DB▲152
The Frontend Database API Gateway
Dec 2025 · vibecode-db.geekyants.com · its alternatives →
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PostgREST API in Rust (Supports PG/MySQL/SQLite/ClickHouse)▲33
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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restdb.io▲131
Simple online NoSQL database backend
2016 · restdb.io · its alternatives →
15
Postgres Docker image with common extensions▲130
Unmodified Postgres with some useful extensions. Contribute to supabase/postgres development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Restdb.io – a plug and play database service▲101
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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bit.io▲130
All your data in one place
2021 · its alternatives →
18AT
A tool to seed your dev database with real data▲129
A bunch of developers and myself have created RepliByte - an open-source tool to seed a development database from a production database. Features: - Support data backup and restore for PostgreSQL, MySQL and MongoDB - Replace sensitive data with fake data - Works on large database (> 10GB) (read Design) - Database Subsetting: Scale down a production database to a more reasonable size - Start a local database with the prod data in a single command - On-the-fly data (de)compression (Zlib) - On-the-fly data de/encryption (AES-256) - Fully stateless (no server, no daemon) and lightweight…
2022 · its alternatives →
19
PostgresML▲106
You know Postgres, now you know machine learning
2023 · postgresml.org · its alternatives →
20
Stack on Cloud▲10
Build backends faster for free with Stack on Cloud
2025 · stackon.cloud · its alternatives →
21
Postquel▲70
A fast, native PostgreSQL client for macOS, with an AI assistant that uses the Claude Code, Codex or Cursor account already on your Mac.
17d ago · frizky.dev · its alternatives →
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Venice – open-source Plaid to Postgres in minutes without code▲53
Hi HN! Tony & Ali here, we are super excited to introduce Venice - an open source financial data integrations platform. Our MVP is getting financial data from Plaid into your postgres database in under 5 mins. We met while building our own respective fintechs. We noticed how much developer time went into setting up and maintaining the infrastructure rather than actually building the fintech itself. In Tony’s last project Alka for instance, the engineering team spent 30%+ of time building and maintaining the data connectivity and pipeline rather than the core work of accounting. What we wish…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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CurioDB – A distributed/persistent Redis clone built with Scala/Akka▲62
Distributed NoSQL Database. Contribute to stephenmcd/curiodb development by creating an account on GitHub.
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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StackGres: open-source Postgres-aaS on Kubernetes with 120 Extensions▲54
StackGres is a fully-featured platform for running PostgreSQL on Kubernetes. Deploy in minutes an Enterprise-Grade Postgres-as-a-Service, in your infrastructure. 100% Open Source.
2021 · stackgres.io · its alternatives →

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