Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Neon
Postgres got serverless, no more infra babysitting
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Neon launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Instant GraphQL backend with Hasura & Neon in under 2 mins
2022 · hasura.io · its alternatives →
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Supabase▲2,325The Postgres developer platform is now generally available
2024 · supabase.com · its alternatives →
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postgres.new▲774The in-browser Postgres sandbox with AI assistance
2024 · database.build · its alternatives →
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This is a MVP for Serverless Postgres. 1/ It uses Fly.io[0], which can automatically pause your database after all connections are released (and start it again when new connections join). 2/ It uses Oriole[1], a Postgres extension with experimental support for S3 / Decoupled Storage[2]. 3/ It uses Tigris[3], Globally Distributed S3-Compatible Object Storage. Oriole will automatically backup the data to Tigris using background workers. I wouldn't recommend using this in production, but I think it's in a good spot to provoke some discussion and ideas. You can get it running…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey folks - one thing I find a bit frustrating using non-supabase Postgres providers is the lack of ability to perform DB queries via an SDK/API. I decided to build a quick sample of how to combine PostgREST + Neon to recreate this dev experience.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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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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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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Powerful PostgreSQL tool is now open source for self-hosting
2021 · supabase.com · its alternatives →
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A lightweight message queue. Like AWS SQS and RSMQ but on Postgres. - pgmq/pgmq
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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We're happy to announce an early version of https://github.com/molnett/neon-operator, a Kubernetes operator that allows you to self-host Neon on your own infrastructure. This is the culmination of our efforts to understand the internal details of Neon, and we're excited to share our findings with the community!
2025 · molnett.com · its alternatives →
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A high-performance Postgres replication engine written in Rust. Embed it in your Rust application or run it as a standalone binary. - supabase/etl
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Serverless shareable Postgres database in literally seconds
2022 · its alternatives →
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hi hn, hydra ceo here hydra is an open source, column-oriented postgres. you can set up remarkably fast aggregates on your project in minutes to query billions of rows instantly. postgres is great, but aggregates can take minutes to hours to return results on large data sets. long-running analytical queries hog database resources and degrade performance. use hydra to run much faster analytics on postgres without making code changes. data is automatically loaded into columnar format and compressed. connect to hydra with your preferred postgres client (psql, dbeaver, etc). following 4 months…
2023 · hydra-so.notion.site · its alternatives →
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Show HN: SerenDB – Neon PostgreSQL fork optimized for AI agent workloads We forked Neon to make database operations faster and safer for AI agents. The goal is to enable instant experimentation with production data and catch prompt injection attacks before they hit your DB. The open-source repo is at https://github.com/serenorg/serendb The coolest current features are: 1. Time-travel queries: Query your database as it existed at any timestamp. SELECT * FROM orders AS OF TIMESTAMP '2024-01-15 14:30:00'. Essential for debugging agent decisions and auditing what data an…
Oct 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I’m an engineer at Supabase [0] and one of the creators of this demo. My team and I have been working hard to bring developers the next version of Supabase Realtime. The current version of Realtime [1] is a Change Data Capture (CDC) server for a PostgreSQL database that broadcasts changes via WebSockets to authorized subscribers. It’s written in Elixir/Phoenix. The server utilizes PostgreSQL’s logical replication functionality, which writes database changes to Write-Ahead Logging (WAL) segment files, and a replication slot, responsible for managing and retaining WAL files.…
2022 · multiplayer.dev · its alternatives →
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Hello HN, I am Sai Srirampur, one of the Co-founders of PeerDB. (https://github.com/PeerDB-io/peerdb). We spent the past 7 months building a solid experience to replicate data from Postgres to data warehouses. Now we're expanding to queues. PeerDB Streams provides a simple and native way to replicate changes as they happen in Postgres to Queues (Kafka, Redpanda, Google PubSub, etc). We use Postgres logical decoding to enable Change Data Capture (CDC). Blog post here: https://blog.peerdb.io/peerdb-streams-simple-native-postgres.... 10-min quickstart here:…
2024 · its alternatives →
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Enterprise-Grade OSS PostgreSQL Distribution with HA, PITR, IaC, Monitor, 12 kernel forks and 575 PG extensions. Best-of-breed products integrated as a platform. Self-host Postgres like a Pro! - pgsty/pigsty
2023 · 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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Logical multi-master PostgreSQL replication. Contribute to pgEdge/spock development by creating an account on GitHub.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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