Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to PageQL – Embed SQL directly in HTML
Hi HN, I've been experimenting for some time with writing web frameworks, and I thought it's time to publish one that I really like: it just embeds SQL directly inside HTML without any glue language. One of the main motivators for getting this minimal was the Hundred Year Web Seervice with htmx presentation by Alexandrer Petros (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lASLZ9TgXyc), that showed that both HTML and SQL have staying power, but he couldn't really find a perfect glue language for his app. After some searching I only found ColdFusion to have implemented the same idea, but…
PageQL is a web framework that embeds SQL directly into HTML without requiring a separate programming language. Designed for developers building long-lasting web services, it combines the durability of HTML and SQL… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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A SQL database implemented purely in TypeScript type annotations. - codemix/ts-sql
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey Hacker News! I wanted to share the open source project I have been working on during the last year: SQLPage, a tool to build small web applications entirely in SQL. Building web applications with just SQL isn't as crazy as it seems. Most simple applications can be expressed declaratively as just data queries that fill pre-defined web components. I'd love to hear your feedback and thoughts on it. Would you potentially use it? How can it be improved? Website: https://sql.ophir.dev/ Github: https://github.com/lovasoa/SQLpage Example app:…
2023 · sql.ophir.dev · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone — thanks for your interest in PRQL — let us know any questions or feedback! We're excited to be releasing 0.2[1], the first version of PRQL you can use in your own projects. It wouldn't exist without the feedback we got from HackerNews when we originally posted the proposal. [1]: https://github.com/prql/prql/releases/tag/0.2.0
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Free browser-based SQL editor powered by DuckDB. Query and visualize CSV, JSON, Parquet and Arrow files locally or from remote URLs. No installation required.
2024 · sql-workbench.com · its alternatives →
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Paste in my prompt to Claude Code with an embedded API key for accessing my public readonly SQL+vector database, and you have a state-of-the-art research tool over Hacker News, arXiv, LessWrong, and dozens of other high-quality public commons sites. Claude whips up the monster SQL queries that safely run on my machine, to answer your most nuanced questions. There's also an Alerts functionality, where you can just ask Claude to submit a SQL query as an alert, and you'll be emailed when the ultra nuanced criteria is met (and the output changes). Like I want to know when somebody posts about…
Dec 2025 · exopriors.com · its alternatives →
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How to GraphQL▲376Open-source tutorial website to learn GraphQL development
2017 · howtographql.com · its alternatives →
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SQL Workbench▲186In-browser SQL Workbench for data querying & visualization
2024 · sql-workbench.com · its alternatives →
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An extremely simple and explicit ORM for TypeScript - Seb-C/kiss-orm
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A lightweight JavaScript library that transforms static SQL code blocks into interactive, browser-based SQL execution environments using DuckDB WASM. Zero backend required.
Nov 2025 · embedded.sql-workbench.com · its alternatives →
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A powerful new query language to analyze your data
2016 · mixpanel.com · its alternatives →
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Extract information from websites using SQL
2022 · usesql.com · its alternatives →
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Graphweaver is an open-source GraphQL API Server that can connect many data sources to create a single API. Create a headless CMS, API Gateway, BaaS or use it as a BFF.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Contribute to akdor1154/python-csql development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A pure ORM for writing native SQL queries yielding pure business objects - craigmichaelmartin/pure-orm
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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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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Last year, I wanted to learn a bit about how easy it would be to deploy a python app via web assembly to the browser and decided to make a wrapper around the amazing sqlglot by Toby Mao and the rest of the team. The tool lets you paste in Sql queries and translate them between the available sql dialects in sqlglot. It also gives you parse diagnostics and the ability to easily share queries via storing all the state in the url. The stack that was used is typescript for the UI and pyodide to integrate with Sqlglot, which does the heavy lifting. It's more of a toy app but I've found some use…
2025 · sqlscope.netlify.app · its alternatives →
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Prela is an embedded query language based on Tarski's Algebra of Relations. Its queries are concise, clear, and fast. It is implemented by shallow embedding in a host programming language: Prela operators are regular functions in the host. The implementation follows continuation-passing style which compiles to efficient columnar execution.
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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We'd like to show you Storex, a database abstraction layer that allows you to move your database interaction code between client- and server-side. By surrounding it with modular, recombinable packages for common problems such as schema migrations, it's possible to re-use logic touching the database across a wide variety of databases, allowing you to develop your code entirely in-browser in your daily development workflow, and then move your database to PostgreSQL/MySQL back-end once you're ready. Storex was designed modularly enough to easily be adapted to mBaaS like Firebase, which is…
2019 · its alternatives →
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hi hn, today I'm open sourcing a new SQL-like query language that's built for the web. it has dedicated syntax for request, parsers, selectors, and javascript snippets... it was built on nodejs with the incredible moo lexer and nearley parser. if you're a fan of regular expressions, do I have some code to show you! the website is mostly just a few examples and a playground where you can write & run (& share!) your own queries. there's also an introductory blog post where i try but ultimately fail to justify why this should be its own language and not a library/framework. enjoy!
2024 · getlang.dev · its alternatives →
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Built QueryWeaver, an open-source text2SQL tool that uses a graph to create a semantic layer on top of your existing databases. When you ask "show me customers who bought product X in a certain ‘REGION’ over the last Y period of time," it knows which tables to join and how. When you follow up with "just the ones from Europe," it remembers what you were talking about. Instead of feeding the model a list of tables and columns, we feed it a graph that understands what a customer is, how it connects to orders, which products belong to a campaign, and what "active user" actually means in your…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · objsql.com · its alternatives →
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jq, but for HTML. Contribute to orf/html-query development by creating an account on GitHub.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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