Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Postgres Playground
Hands-on tutorials to learn Postgres
Postgres Playground is a free, browser-based learning platform for PostgreSQL users at all levels. It provides hands-on tutorials covering fundamentals like shell interactions, indexes, and transactions, as well as… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Postgres Playground launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Supabase▲2,325The Postgres developer platform is now generally available
2024 · supabase.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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We've been hard at work for a few weeks and thought it's time for another update. In case you missed our first post, PostgresML is an end-to-end machine learning solution, running alongside your favorite database. This time we have more of a suite offering: project management, visibility into the datasets and the deployment pipeline decision making. Let us know what you think! Demo link is on the page, and also here: https://demo.postgresml.org
2022 · postgresml.org · 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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GraphQL for Postgres. Contribute to solidsnack/GraphpostgresQL development by creating an account on GitHub.
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Sqlime is an online SQLite playground for debugging and sharing SQL snippets.
2021 · sqlime.org · its alternatives →
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pgMustard is a Postgres EXPLAIN visualisation tool that also gives performance advice, scored based on its potential to speed up your query.
2019 · pgmustard.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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2016 · graph.nodaljs.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · pgexercises.com · its alternatives →
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Contribute to Z-Gort/Reservoirs-Lab development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I created this small guide for people starting with postgresql. I added some queries I commonly used as well. Any feedback?
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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PostgreSQL pooler with sharding, load balancing and failover support. - postgresml/pgcat
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A flamegraph generator for Postgres EXPLAIN ANALYZE output. - mgartner/pg_flame
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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GraphQL IDE for better development workflows
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey, Sam and the team from ElectricSQL here. PGlite is a WASM Postgres build packaged into a TypeScript/JavaScript client library, that enables you to run Postgres in the browser, Node.js and Bun, with no need to install any other dependencies. It's 3mb Gzipped, now has support for many Postgres extensions, including pgvector, and it has a reactive "live query" API. It's also fast, with CRUD style queries executing in under 0.3 ms, and larger, multi-row select queries occurring within a fraction of a single frame. PGlite started as an experimental project we shared on X, and the…
2024 · pglite.dev · its alternatives →
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Hi HN. As a backend developer using PostgreSQL and Ruby on Rails for more than 10 years, around 3 years ago, I caught a spark to learn as much as I could about how to operate high performance, scalable, and reliable PostgreSQL databases. As I reflected on my own career path, I realized there are other developers that may want to learn more about this. I saw an opportunity to help show backend developers how they could put advanced, powerful, PostgreSQL features to use, to help build and scale their Rails apps. I've been fortunate to give presentations in both the PostgreSQL and Rails…
2023 · pragprog.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! Lev and Justin here, authors of PgDog (https://pgdog.dev/), a connection pooler, load balancer and database sharder for PostgreSQL. If you build apps with a lot of traffic, you know the first thing to break is the database. We are solving this with a network proxy that works without requiring application code changes or database migrations. Our post from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44099187 The most important update: we are in production. Sharding is used a lot, with direct-to-shard queries (one shard per query) working pretty much…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2018 · bluejekyll.github.io · its alternatives →
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