Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to My favourite database for Web3: Xata
Blog post on why I love Xata when building web3 projects
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. My favourite database for Web3: Xata launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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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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Hi! Xata was on HackerNews once before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28590816) a bit over a year ago, when we were at the beginning of our development. We've promised we're going to do a Show HN page when we come out of Private Beta, and this just happened today. Xata is a product in the serverless database space. We know that the space is fairly crowded now, with lots of great companies started recently. We're happy to see a fresh wave of database products, that are focused more on the developer experience, rather than a race to the bottom on performance and cost. We…
2022 · xata.io · its alternatives →
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We have been using graph DBs more and more at work. I found them painful to work with locally and decided to try and build something better.
Aug 2026 · github.com · 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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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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Slava Akhmechet schools us on RethinkDB and the realtime web
2015 · changelog.com · its alternatives →
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A distributed, fast open-source graph database featuring horizontal scalability and high availability - GitHub - vesoft-inc/nebula: A distributed, fast open-source graph database featuring horizontal scalability and high availability
2020 · github.com · 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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2023 · composedb.js.org · its alternatives →
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IronDB is now ImmortalDB: https://github.com/gruns/ImmortalDB - gruns/irondb
2018 · github.com · 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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Realize the speed, agility and performance of a scalable, composable web architecture with Netlify. Explore the composable web platform now!
2019 · netlify.com · its alternatives →
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Hi, this has been a labor of love over the last few days =) Can't wait to hear you feedback and of course AMA!
2023 · blog.airsequel.com · its alternatives →
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Hey all, I'm a product designer and I built this cause' when I was designing liquidity pool and staking features for this DAO, I didn't know how the user flow worked and how the UI looked for similar pages, so I was constantly switching back and forth Balancer, Uniswap, and OlympusDAO as references. I thought that I might not be the only one with this problem, so I built this library of userflow screenshots, and annotated them, to share with the web3 community of builders, designers, and developers. Would love feedback if you're a builder in web3, let's connect too! (Also I'm aware that…
2023 · w3design.io · its alternatives →
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A framework for web component frameworks
2024 · sirpepe.github.io · its alternatives →
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Hello, I'm Eric, developer and co-founder of Xornet, Inc. the company behind our new service, SchemafreeDB. This is a 2nd submission... we removed some obscurity from the original submission title. SchemafreeDB was designed from the ground-up to enable Rapid Database Development for web developers. SchemafreeDB's unique combination of features include: * Creation of free-form data structures on the fly at insert-time. e.g. Simply add an attribute 'phone-extension' to any phone object, without disturbing your existing phone objects, all without visiting a schema design stage. * Full SQL…
2012 · schemafreedb.com · its alternatives →
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The local-first database that runs on every JS runtime and replicates with your existing backend - no vendor, no lock-in - https://rxdb.info/ - pubkey/rxdb
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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- LatticeDB – Like SQLite but for graph databases alternatives
- DrawDB – open-source online database diagram editor (a retro) alternatives
- HelixDB – Open-source vector-graph database for AI applications (Rust) alternatives
Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →