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24 alternatives to PeerDB

Fast, native ETL for Postgres

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. PeerDB launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

  1. 1PS

    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 →

  2. 2IA

    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 →

  3. 3
    Supabase▲2,328

    The Postgres developer platform is now generally available

    2024 · supabase.com · its alternatives →

  4. 4
    bit.io▲130

    All your data in one place

    2021 · its alternatives →

  5. 5PA
  6. 6HF
  7. 7IO
  8. 8
    InstantDB▲329

    Complete backend with auth and storage in one prompt

    Apr 2026 · instantdb.com · its alternatives →

  9. 9
    clientdb▲295

    Build lightning fast apps with instantaneous interactions

    2022 · its alternatives →

  10. 10PJ
  11. 11

    Free private sample PostgreSQL databases

    2021 · its alternatives →

  12. 12
    Outerbase▲298

    The interface for your database

    2023 · its alternatives →

  13. 13
  14. 14

    Powerful PostgreSQL tool is now open source for self-hosting

    2021 · its alternatives →

  15. 15PT

    PgQueuer is a minimalist, high-performance job queue library for Python, leveraging the robustness of PostgreSQL. Designed for simplicity and efficiency, PgQueuer uses PostgreSQL's LISTEN/NOTIFY to manage job queues effortlessly.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

  16. 16BP

    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 →

  17. 17DA

    Hey HN! I’ve written a bunch of WebSocket servers over the years to do simple things like state synchronization, WebRTC signaling, and notifying a client when a backend job was run. I realized that if I had a simple way to create a private, temporary, mini-redis that the client could talk to directly, it would save a lot of time. So we created DriftDB. In addition to the open source server that you can run yourself, we also provide https://jamsocket.live where you can use an instance we host on Cloudflare’s edge (~13ms round trip latency from my home in NY). You may have seen my…

    2023 · driftdb.com · its alternatives →

  18. 18PS

    Hey HN! Lev here, author of PgDog (https://github.com/pgdogdev/pgdog). I’m scaling our favorite database, PostgreSQL. PgDog is a new open source proxy, written in Rust, with first-class support for sharding — without changes to your app or needing database extensions. Here’s a walkthrough of how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6sebczWZ-c Running Postgres at scale is hard. Eventually, one primary isn’t enough at which point you need to split it up. Since there is currently no good tooling out there to do this, teams end up breaking their apps…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

  19. 19PR
  20. 20RA
  21. 21

    Instant Realtime GraphQL on Postgres

    2018 · its alternatives →

  22. 22

    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 →

  23. 23

    Migrate from Firebase to GraphQL on Postgres

    2018 · its alternatives →

  24. 24

    The future of serverless databases

    2025 · its alternatives →

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