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24 alternatives to HarperDB Cloud

Fastest and Most User Friendly Cloud Database on the Market

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. HarperDB Cloud launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    SereneDBfree▲262

    Ultra-Fast Search & Analytics Database, Agentic AI ready

    Sep 2026 · serenedb.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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    restdb.io▲131

    Simple online NoSQL database backend

    2016 · restdb.io · its alternatives →

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    Communicate with databases like a human

    2017 · friendlydata.io · its alternatives →

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    Textdb▲70

    A simple way to share small amounts of data

    2020 · textdb.dev · its alternatives →

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    NocoDB▲465

    Free & open source Airtable alternative

    2021 · github.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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    GraphQL database platform

    2018 · app.prisma.io · its alternatives →

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    The most advanced distribution system of NDB Cluster, by Mikael Ronström the inventor of NDB Cluster; made to work for the most advanced ML applications.

    2021 · rondb.com · its alternatives →

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    EasyDB▲155

    A one-click ephemeral database

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    Store, sync and query app data at global scale

    2017 · firebase.google.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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    QuestDB▲194

    Fastest open source database for time-series and analytics

    2020 · questdb.com · its alternatives →

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    Communicate with databases like a human

    2018 · friendlydata.io · its alternatives →

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    CrateDB▲52

    A SQL database with native distribution and dynamic schema

    2021 · cratedb.com · its alternatives →

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    JawsDB▲116

    Fast, reliable, no-bullshark MySQL as a service

    2017 · jawsdb.com · its alternatives →

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    Onlyfans but for databases

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Open-source database that runs SQL queries continuously

    2015 · its alternatives →

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