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24 alternatives to EdgeDB: The next generation database
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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. EdgeDB: The next generation database launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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EdgeDB 1.0▲947Today, after years of research, development, and refinement EdgeDB graduates to a production-ready database. We are very proud to announce EdgeDB 1.0.
2022 · edgedb.com · its alternatives →
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Hi there! This is Yury, a co-founder. We've been busy for a while building EdgeDB Cloud and now it's finally here. EdgeDB Cloud is pretty cool and takes full advantage of our database. You get declarative schema, strict typing throughout, great performance, a query language that's best of GraphQL & SQL, and many many other perks. The Cloud itself is quite unique because of EdgeDB. Our query language gives you composability - so you can fetch everything for your page or API endpoint in one network request. And our protocol and client libraries give you auto recovery on network errors,…
2023 · edgedb.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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A Go SQL query builder and struct mapper. Contribute to samonzeweb/godb development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Undb▲243Open source Airtable alternative & backend as a service
2024 · 2ndline.io · its alternatives →
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One year ago I open-sourced my very first 'real' project and shared it here. I was a college student in my senior year and desperately looking for a job. At the time of sharing it i couldn't even afford a domain and naively let someone buy the one i had my eyes on lol. It's been a hell of a year with this blowing up, me moving to another country, and switching 2 jobs. In a year we somehow managed to hit 26k stars, grow a 1000+ person discord community, and support 37 languages. I couldn't be more grateful for the community that helped this grow, but now i don't know what direction to take…
2025 · drawdb.app · 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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Would love thoughts! Here is the HF page: https://huggingface.co/chatdb/natural-sql-7b
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · terminusdb.com · 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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2019 · easydb.io · its alternatives →
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RelateDB▲140Offline-first database schema designer in your browser
Jan 2026 · relatedb.com · its alternatives →
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SleekDB is a simple flat file NoSQL like database implemented in PHP without any third-party dependencies that store data in plain JSON files.
2021 · sleekdb.github.io · its alternatives →
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2020 · textdb.dev · its alternatives →
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2015 · gundb.io · its alternatives →
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A look at modern database approaches and how Citus scales PG
2016 · softwareengineeringdaily.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I’m Justin, founder and CEO of Arctype, and we’re very excited to share Arctype with the community. Arctype is a cross-platform GUI (soon to be open-sourced) to manage and query your databases, with built-in collaboration and visualization. It currently supports Postgres, MySQL, and SQLite, as well as newer-generation databases like ClickHouse, PlanetScale, and Yugabyte (and more coming very soon!). Think of Arctype as “phpMyAdmin meets Postman”. Most of our team grew up learning how to program using the LAMP stack and we missed the experience of interacting with our databases using…
2022 · arctype.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · spreadsheetdb.io · 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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Manipulate your SQLite database like a giant Javascript object. Built with o1.
2024 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →
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ZeroDB▲119An open-source, end-to-end encrypted database protocol
2015 · zerodb.io · its alternatives →
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