Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Sequin – Use Postgres/SQL to read from and write to APIs launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Sequin▲99

   The fastest way to integrate with third-party APIs.

   2022 · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Hasura – Fast, instant GraphQL APIs on Postgres▲382

   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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   ElectricSQL, Postgres to SQLite active-active sync for local-first apps▲617

   Hi HN, James, Valter, Sam and the team from ElectricSQL here. We're really excited to be sharing ElectricSQL with you today. It's an open source, local-first sync layer that can be used to build reactive, realtime, offline-capable apps directly on Postgres with two way active-active sync to SQLite (including with WASM in the browser). Electric comprises a sync layer (built with Elixir) placed in front of your Postgres database and a type safe client that allows you to bidirectionally sync data from your Postgres to local SQLite databases. This sync is CRDT-based, resilient to conflicting…

   2023 · electric-sql.com · its alternatives →

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   Neurelo ▲527

   Transform your databases into APIs

   2024 · dripnetwork.io · its alternatives →

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   bit.io▲130

   All your data in one place

   2021 · its alternatives →

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   Bi-directional sync between Postgres and SQLite▲356

   Hi HN, Today we’re launching PowerSync, a Postgres<>SQLite bi-directional sync engine that enables an offline-first app architecture. It currently supports Flutter, React Native and web (JavaScript) using Wasm SQLite in the browser, with more client SDKs on the way. Conrad and I (Ralf) have been working on our sync engine since 2009, originally as part of a full-stack app platform. That version of the system is still used in production worldwide and we’ve learnt a lot from its use cases and scaling. About a year ago we started on spinning off PowerSync as a standalone product that is…

   2023 · powersync.com · its alternatives →

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   Velvet – Store OpenAI requests in your own DB▲109

   Hey HN! We’re Emma and Chris, founders of Velvet (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usevelvet.com). Velvet proxies OpenAI calls and stores the requests and responses in your PostgreSQL database. That way, you can analyze logs with SQL (instead of a clunky UI). You can also set headers to add caching and metadata (for analysis). Backstory: We started by building some more general AI data tools (like a text-to-SQL editor). We were frustrated by the lack of basic LLM infrastructure, so ended up pivoting to focus on the tooling we wanted. So many existing apps, like Helicone, were hard to use as power…

   2024 · usevelvet.com · its alternatives →

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   SnapQL – Desktop app to query Postgres with AI▲104

   SnapQL is an open-source desktop app (built with Electron) that lets you query your Postgres database using natural language. It’s schema-aware, so you don’t need to copy-paste your schema or write complex SQL by hand. Everything runs locally — your OpenAI API key, your data, and your queries — so it's secure and private. Just connect your DB, describe what you want, and SnapQL writes and runs the SQL for you.

   2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   BemiDB – Postgres read replica optimized for analytics▲209

   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 →

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    GraphQL for Postgres▲195

    GraphQL for Postgres. Contribute to solidsnack/GraphpostgresQL development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Sequin – A Kafka Alternative to REST APIs▲6

    Hey HN! We're Eric, Carter, and Anthony from Sequin (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sequin.io). Sequin streams data from platforms like Stripe, AWS, and Salesforce into messaging systems like Kafka. Sequin loads historic data into topics and then streams new changes in real-time. You can provision a stream of API data with a single POST request. This means you can add third-party data to your apps and internal tools super fast. We support streaming to Kafka and NATS. If you don’t have a messaging system, you can use our serverless hosted one. To get your data at rest, you can stream to databases like…

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    I Wrote a Book on PostgreSQL for Rails▲47

    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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    Apisentris▲132

    Convert any databases to APIs

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    PRQL in PostgreSQL▲267

    This extension let's you write PRQL functions in PostgreSQL. When I first saw PRQL on Hacker News a few months ago, I was immediately captivated by the idea, yet equally disappointed that there was no integration for PostgreSQL. Having previous experience with writing PostgreSQL extensions in C, I thought this was a great opportunity to try out the pgrx framework and decided to integrate PRQL with PostgreSQL myself. The maintainers of both PRQL and pgrx were very nice to work with. Thanks guys.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Peerdb Streams – Simple, native Postgres change data capture▲177

    Hello HN, I am Sai Srirampur, one of the Co-founders of PeerDB. (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;PeerDB-io&#x2F;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:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.peerdb.io&#x2F;peerdb-streams-simple-native-postgres.... 10-min quickstart here:…

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Serverless Postgres▲159

    This is a MVP for Serverless Postgres. 1&#x2F; 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&#x2F; It uses Oriole[1], a Postgres extension with experimental support for S3 &#x2F; Decoupled Storage[2]. 3&#x2F; 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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    PostGraphile▲7

    Instant fast GraphQL API for PostgreSQL database

    2018 · postgraphile.org · its alternatives →

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    PostgREST API in Rust (Supports PG/MySQL/SQLite/ClickHouse)▲33

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Portal▲109

    Use Notion as your Postgres UI

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Write universally accessible SQL, not library-specific ORM wrapper APIs▲112

    A pure ORM for writing native SQL queries yielding pure business objects - craigmichaelmartin/pure-orm

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Postquel▲70

    A fast, native PostgreSQL client for macOS, with an AI assistant that uses the Claude Code, Codex or Cursor account already on your Mac.

    17d ago · frizky.dev · its alternatives →

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    Hubsync▲78

    Hubspot data at your fingertips in real-time

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    OxideDB – Teach PostgreSQL Database How to Speak MongoDB Wire Protocol▲30

    Hey everyone! I have created a product that relies on MongoDB for a document store but doesn't really need any of the distributed features to really justify having a hosted MongoDB or DocumentDB instance. Now that we're trying to turn this into a product, we're seeing that some companies have a little bit of resistance around managing yet another database. Most of our clients already have and manage PostgreSQL in one form or another. I knew that PostgreSQL already offered first class JSON support, but I didn't want to rewrite the application data layer from scratch if I could avoid it.…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

24. 24QG
    Quickly generate REST API (for Postgres db)▲70

    2019 · its alternatives →

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