Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Database Lab – thin Postgres clones for faster development and testing launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Software Engineering Daily - Scaling PostgreSQL▲70

   A look at modern database approaches and how Citus scales PG

   2016 · softwareengineeringdaily.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Datomic▲73

   Distributed immutable transactional database for the cloud

   2014 · datomic.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Y Combinator Startups▲159

   An Interactive Database

   2014 · its alternatives →

4. 4
   PostgreSQL performance and cost across 23 EC2 instance types▲97

   Hey! I'm Andrei. I got frustrated by how people tend to build overcomplicated backend systems, being "motivated" by big tech case studies and popular books. So, I started exploring lean architecture, and building my digital garden of ideas, approaches and data that align with this direction. Here I want to present one of the tools – Sizing tool for PostgreSQL. I've benchmarked PostgreSQL on different EC2 instances and disks, with different initial data sets to see performance that these instances can give you. And I've built a tool to visualize this data, which I welcome you to explore. So,…

   Jul 2026 · postgres.saneengineer.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Citus▲121

   Turn Postgres into a scale-out distributed database

   2016 · citusdata.com · its alternatives →

6. 6SA
   Supersonic – A New UI for Postgres▲7

   2024 · meetsupersonic.com · its alternatives →

7. 7BA
   Building a Real-Time Data App with Dozer, React, and PostgreSQL▲8

   2023 · getdozer.io · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Franchise▲6

   a notebook for sql

   2017 · franchise.cloud · its alternatives →

9. 9AF
   A free and open source online database modeling editor▲9

   2025 · editor.besser-pearl.org · its alternatives →

10. 10PE
    PgModeler – EER Diagramming for postgres▲9

    2017 · pgmodeler.com.br · its alternatives →

11. 11PP
    Pg_protobuf – Protobuf support for PostgreSQL▲7

    2017 · afiskon.github.io · its alternatives →

12. 12DL
    Database Labs – Postgres as a Service▲46

    Prices for Postgresql Database as a Service in Google Cloud, Amazon, and DigitalOcean.

    2014 · databaselabs.io · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Supabase-Test – Fast Isolated Postgres DBs for Testing Supabase RLS▲30

    Hi HN — we've built a testing framework for Supabase that spins up fast, isolated Postgres databases for each test case. It’s designed to make RLS policies easy to validate with real database state, without global test fixtures or mock auth. Features: - Instant isolated Postgres DBs per test - Automatic rollback after each test - RLS-native testing with `.setContext()` for auth simulation - Flexible seeding (SQL, CSV, JSON, JS) - Works with Jest, Mocha, and any async test runner - CI-friendly (runs cleanly in GitHub Actions) We also published example projects and a free set of tutorials:…

    Nov 2025 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →

14. 14MR
    Merging RethinkDB and Postgres with GraphQL▲6

    2017 · blog.collaborizm.com · its alternatives →

15. 15FM
    FreshSQL – Modern, Native, Fast SQL Querying Tool▲5

    2021 · freshsql.com · its alternatives →

16. 16
    A Slack Clone Using Postgres Row Level Security▲6

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

17. 17UP
    Unbounded – Programmable NoSQL Data store▲5

    2020 · unbounded.cloud · its alternatives →

18. 18PD
    progLipsum, Dead Simple Test Data Generation For Developers▲9

    2012 · proglipsum.com · its alternatives →

19. 19IO
    Improving on the Command-Line SQL Experience▲5

    2020 · medium.com · its alternatives →

20. 20AP
    AI-Powered SQL Tools▲7

    Generate arduous database queries in a snap

    2023 · dbsensei.com · its alternatives →

21. 21JA
    Jongo, a RESTful JDBC Interface Server▲7

    2011 · code.google.com · its alternatives →

22. 22PA
    Plisqin, an SQL generator written in Racket▲7

    2018 · docs.racket-lang.org · its alternatives →

23. 23IA
    Interactive Analytics on GitHub Data Using PostgreSQL with Citus▲7

    2016 · citusdata.com · its alternatives →

24. 24AN
    a Navigational Query Language for PostgreSQL▲9

    2011 · htsql.org · its alternatives →

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