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24 alternatives to Inquery (YC W23) – Real-time events for Postgres

Hi HN, we're excited to share our open source tool with the community! Inquery is a utility for Postgres that triggers webhooks when rows are inserted, updated, or deleted. It uses database triggers that send low-latency websocket messages to a Go application. This application then calls any configured webhooks with a JSON payload that includes specified values from the database row. Let us know if you have any feedback or questions!

Inquery is an open source tool that monitors Postgres databases and sends real-time webhooks when data changes. It uses database triggers to detect row insertions, updates, and deletions, then transmits low-latency… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Inquery (YC W23) – Real-time events for Postgres launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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PgQueuer – Transform PostgreSQL into a Job Queue▲376
PgQueuer is a Python job queue that uses PostgreSQL for everything — queue storage, locking, notifications. No Redis, no RabbitMQ, no separate broker to operate. If your app already has Postgres, you already have the broker. After ~2 years and 26 minor releases, 1.0 ships today as the first stable release. Strict semver from here on. Thanks to everyone who contributed and left feedback!
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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inQuery▲75
An open source, free GraphQL monitoring tool for Node.js
2019 · tableflow.com · its alternatives →
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I open-sourced the in-memory PostgreSQL I built at work for E2E tests▲379
In-memory Postgres for unit/E2E tests. Contribute to hexclave/pgmock development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Quailrunner▲178
Low-code webhook initiation using your Postgres database
2024 · quailrunner.com · its alternatives →
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postgres.new▲774
The in-browser Postgres sandbox with AI assistance
2024 · database.build · its alternatives →
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SQL-tap – Real-time SQL traffic viewer for PostgreSQL and MySQL▲233
sql-tap is a transparent proxy that captures SQL queries by parsing the PostgreSQL/MySQL wire protocol and displays them in a terminal UI. You can run EXPLAIN on any captured query. No application code changes needed — just change the port.
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ElectricSQL, Postgres to SQLite active-active sync for local-first apps▲617
Hi HN, James, Valter, Sam and the team from ElectricSQL here. We're really excited to be sharing ElectricSQL with you today. It's an open source, local-first sync layer that can be used to build reactive, realtime, offline-capable apps directly on Postgres with two way active-active sync to SQLite (including with WASM in the browser). Electric comprises a sync layer (built with Elixir) placed in front of your Postgres database and a type safe client that allows you to bidirectionally sync data from your Postgres to local SQLite databases. This sync is CRDT-based, resilient to conflicting…
2023 · electric-sql.com · its alternatives →
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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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Realtime Postgres▲62
Broadcast, Presence, and Postgres Changes via WebSockets - supabase/realtime
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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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 →
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PGlite – in-browser WASM Postgres with pgvector and live sync▲509
Hey, Sam and the team from ElectricSQL here. PGlite is a WASM Postgres build packaged into a TypeScript/JavaScript client library, that enables you to run Postgres in the browser, Node.js and Bun, with no need to install any other dependencies. It's 3mb Gzipped, now has support for many Postgres extensions, including pgvector, and it has a reactive "live query" API. It's also fast, with CRUD style queries executing in under 0.3 ms, and larger, multi-row select queries occurring within a fraction of a single frame. PGlite started as an experimental project we shared on X, and the…
2024 · pglite.dev · 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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Honker – Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN Semantics for SQLite▲327
SQLite extension + bindings for Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN semantics with durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and scheduler - russellromney/honker
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hatchet – Open-source distributed task queue▲578
Hello HN, we're Gabe and Alexander from Hatchet (https://hatchet.run), we're working on an open-source, distributed task queue. It's an alternative to tools like Celery for Python and BullMQ for Node.js, primarily focused on reliability and observability. It uses Postgres for the underlying queue. Why build another managed queue? We wanted to build something with the benefits of full transactional enqueueing - particularly for dependent, DAG-style execution - and felt strongly that Postgres solves for 99.9% of queueing use-cases better than most alternatives (Celery uses Redis or…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Skor – Drop-in microservice to get Postgres changes as JSON webhooks▲133
Now part of Hasura GraphQL Engine. Listen to postgres events and forward them as JSON payloads to a webhook - hasura/skor
2018 · 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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Hasura Event Triggers▲94
Trigger serverless functions on database events.
2018 · hasura.io · its alternatives →
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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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Json2graphql – From a JSON file to Postgres-backed realtime GraphQL▲120
Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on all your data with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events. - graphql-engine/community/tools/json2graphql at master · hasura/graphql-engine
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Safe Data Changes in PostgreSQL▲47
Hi HN, we're excited to share our open source tool with the community! We previously posted here with the tagline “real-time events for Postgres” [0]. But after feedback from early users and the community, we’ve shifted our focus to working on tooling for manual database changes. We've consistently heard teams describe challenges with the way manual data updates are handled. Seemingly every engineer we spoke with had examples of errant queries that ended up causing significant harm in production environments (data loss/service interruptions). We’ve seen a few different approaches to how…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app▲326
Hey HN! Lev and Justin here, authors of PgDog (https://pgdog.dev/), a connection pooler, load balancer and database sharder for PostgreSQL. If you build apps with a lot of traffic, you know the first thing to break is the database. We are solving this with a network proxy that works without requiring application code changes or database migrations. Our post from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44099187 The most important update: we are in production. Sharding is used a lot, with direct-to-shard queries (one shard per query) working pretty much…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Anyquery▲110
Query anything with SQL (e.g. Notion, GitHub, JSON)
2024 · anyquery.dev · its alternatives →
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BemiDB – Postgres read replica optimized for analytics▲209
Hi HN! We're Evgeny and Arjun, and we’re building a better way to do analytics with Postgres. We love Postgres for its simplicity, power, and rich ecosystem. But engineers have to still get bogged down with heavyweight and expensive OLAP systems when connecting an analytics data stack. Postgres is amazing at OLTP queries, but not for OLAP queries (large data scans and aggregations). Even in this case, we’ve still heard from countless scaling startups that they still try to use only a read replica to run analytics workloads since they don’t want to deal with the data engineering complexity of…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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PgJQ: Use Jq in Postgres▲39
jq extension for Postgres. Contribute to Florents-Tselai/pgJQ development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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