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WASM

Hey everyone, we built Metatype [0] as a different way to build APIs and backends based on 3 parts: 1. a Python package to build virtual graphs connecting all components of your stack (think databases, third-parties, and existing systems) 2. an HTTP/GraphQL query engine built in Rust/Deno that authorizes and optimizes queries over the graphs 3. a CLI to provide a nice developer experience and fast feedback cycle We developed this platform to tackle some of the challenges we often saw in tech teams we worked with: - most developers (especially backend) still spend too much time on…

Metatype is an open-source platform for building APIs and backends that combines a Python package for mapping virtual graphs across databases and external systems, a Rust/Deno-based HTTP/GraphQL query engine with… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Metatype – an open-source HTTP/GraphQL query engine for APIs/data/WASM launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Anytype - Public Beta▲907
Anytype is built on the open-source AnySync protocol: a local-first protocol based on CRDTs. Users of Anytype can create spaces - graph-based databases with modular UI. Each space has unique access rights. Today, Anytype's beta is in single-player mode. Multiplayer mode, which will support local-first collaboration between multiple users, will be launched in the first half of 2024. Anytype fulfils the seven ideals of local first software from here - https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/ , our team felt these things are important to all of us: • No spinners: your work…
2023 · anytype.io · its alternatives →
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Metabase, an open-source business intelligence tool▲287
Metabase grounds every answer in your semantic layer — your metrics and business logic — so you can inspect the query behind it.
2015 · metabase.com · its alternatives →
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Metabase▲313
Open source business intelligence - Installs in 5 minutes
2015 · metabase.com · its alternatives →
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Prisma▲522
Build a GraphQL server with any database
2018 · prisma.io · 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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HelixDB – Open-source vector-graph database for AI applications (Rust)▲237
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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How to GraphQL▲376
Open-source tutorial website to learn GraphQL development
2017 · howtographql.com · its alternatives →
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GritQL, a Rust CLI for rewriting source code▲280
Hi everyone! I’m excited to open source GritQL, a Rust CLI for searching and transforming source code. GritQL comes from my experiences with conducting large scale refactors and migrations. Usually, I would start exploring a codebase with grep. This is easy to start with, but most migrations end up accumulating additional requirements like ensuring the right packages are imported and excluding cases which don’t have a viable migration path. Eventually, to build a complex migration, I usually ended up having to write a full codemod program with a tool like jscodeshift. This comes with its own…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Metabase Cloud▲237
Fast, easy open source dashboards for everyone
2020 · metabase.com · its alternatives →
10
GraphQL Yoga▲148
The fully-featured GraphQL Server
2022 · the-guild.dev · its alternatives →
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FilterQL – A tiny query language for filtering structured data▲77
Hey all, I just released v2.0.0 of FilterQL, a query language and TypeScript library. This version adds support for Operations, which allow you to transform the data after filtering. If you think this would be useful in a project you're working on, give it a try and let me know what you think!
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hacker News Clone – Clojure, GraphQL Learning Project▲179
I have ported "The Fullstack Tutorial for GraphQL" series, https://www.howtographql.com/, from Javascript to Clojure/script. Blog post: https://promesante.github.io/2019/08/14/clojure_graphql_full... Source code GitHub repo: https://github.com/promesante/hn-clj-pedestal-re-frame Suggestions and corrections, more than welcome.
2019 · its alternatives →
13
TypeScript to GraphQL conversion tool with type inference▲90
Build Typed GraphQL Queries in TypeScript without the code generation - acro5piano/typed-graphqlify
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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R2R V2 – A open source RAG engine with prod features▲251
Hi HN! We're building R2R [https://github.com/SciPhi-AI/R2R], an open source RAG answer engine that is built on top of Postgres+Neo4j. The best way to get started is with the docs - https://r2r-docs.sciphi.ai/introduction. This is a major update from our V1 which we have spent the last 3 months intensely building after getting a ton of great feedback from our first Show HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39510874). We changed our focus to building a RAG engine instead of a framework, because this is what developers asked for the most.…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Build dApp front-ends using GraphQL▲74
⛓ Cleargraph is a GraphQL runtime for decentralized applications - dsys/cleargraph
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hubql▲109
Turn data models and APIs into diagrams and documentation
2023 · hubql.com · its alternatives →
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REST Alternative to GraphQL and tRPC▲123
2023 · openapistack.co · its alternatives →
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Uniform GraphQL▲65
GraphQL APIs in TypeScript with complete e2e type safety
2021 · uniform-graphql.whatsgood.dog · its alternatives →
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Twitter API Reverse Engineered▲183
endpoints: /graphql /1.1 /2 /i
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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An example GraphQL server written in Rust▲74
An example GraphQL server written in Rust. Contribute to lucperkins/rust-graphql-juniper-actix-diesel-postgres development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · 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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Hashquery, a Python library for defining reusable analysis▲67
Hi all, we recently open sourced the first version of Hashquery, a Python library which lets you model analytics, DRY up common logic, and execute it against a database or warehouse. We were originally rendering SQL directly for all our queries, but that spiraled out of control with more complex analysis; the SQL needed to be changed sporadically for each new database dialect (BigQuery, Redshift, Aethena, Postgres, etc etc) and the SQL fragments were very challenging to reuse (and so fragments were copy-pasted all over). ~~~ Advantages we think it has over writing SQL by hand: - Queries are…
2024 · hashquery.dev · its alternatives →
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ShapedQL – A SQL engine for multi-stage ranking and RAG▲80
Hi HN, I’m Tullie, founder of Shaped. Previously, I was a researcher at Meta AI, worked on ranking for Instagram Reels, and was a contributor to PyTorch Lightning. We built ShapedQL because we noticed that while retrieval (finding 1,000 items) has been commoditized by vector DBs, ranking (finding the best 10 items) is still an infrastructure problem. To build a decent for you feed or a RAG system with long-term memory, you usually have to put together a vector DB (Pinecone/Milvus), a feature store (Redis), an inference service, and thousands of lines of Python to handle business logic…
Jan 2026 · playground.shaped.ai · its alternatives →
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MeTA: A Modern C++ Data Sciences Toolkit▲39
A Modern C++ Data Sciences Toolkit
2014 · meta-toolkit.github.io · its alternatives →

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