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24 alternatives to ShieldQL

Lightweight GraphQL OSLabs Express middleware library

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

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   Graphcool▲292

   The GraphQL backend for mobile & web developers

   2017 · graph.cool · its alternatives →

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   Scaphold 2.0▲207

   GraphQL backend as a service

   2017 · kamaldadoriyachickmaker.in.net · its alternatives →

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   Quell▲71

   The lightweight caching solution for GraphQL queries

   2023 · quell.dev · its alternatives →

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   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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   Slash GraphQL - by Dgraph Labs▲151

   Launch your GraphQL backend in one click

   2020 · docs.dgraph.io · its alternatives →

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   GraphCMS▲264

   The GraphQL CMS

   2017 · hygraph.com · its alternatives →

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   Grafbase▲192

   Unify the data layer with GraphQL

   2023 · grafbase.com · its alternatives →

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   Rocketgraph▲121

   Build production grade web applications in minutes

   2024 · its alternatives →

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   CoolQLCool – Turn Websites into GraphQL Accessible APIs▲124

   2018 · coolql.cool · its alternatives →

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    The Road to GraphQL▲122

    Your journey to master pragmatic GraphQL in JavaScript

    2018 · robinwieruch.de · its alternatives →

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    Reindex▲161

    GraphQL backend as a service

    2016 · reindex.io · its alternatives →

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    Scaphold▲87

    GraphQL-as-a-service.

    2016 · kamaldadoriyachickmaker.in.net · its alternatives →

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    GraphQL Yoga▲148

    The fully-featured GraphQL Server

    2022 · the-guild.dev · its alternatives →

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    FilterQL – A tiny query language for filtering structured data▲77

    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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    GraphQL Queries with React and GUN, the Graph Database▲37

    A graphql API for the gun p2p graph database. Contribute to brysgo/graphql-gun development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    In-Browser Graph RAG with Kuzu-WASM and WebLLM▲158

    We show the potential of modern, embedded graph databases in the browser by demonstrating a fully in-browser chatbot that can perform Graph RAG using Kuzu (the graph database we're building) and WebLLM, a popular in-browser inference engine for LLMs. The post retrieves from the graph via a Text-to-Cypher pipeline that translates a user question into a Cypher query, and the LLM uses the retrieved results to synthesize a response. As LLMs get better, and WebGPU and Wasm64 become more widely adopted, we expect to be able to do more and more in the browser in combination with LLMs, so a lot of…

    2025 · blog.kuzudb.com · its alternatives →

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    Build dApp front-ends using GraphQL▲74

    ⛓ Cleargraph is a GraphQL runtime for decentralized applications - dsys/cleargraph

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Graphene – GraphQL framework for Python▲106

    Graphene framework for Python

    2016 · graphene-python.org · its alternatives →

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    Learning GraphQL and Relay▲78

    Build data-driven React applications with GraphQL and Relay

    2017 · packtpub.com · its alternatives →

20. 20TF
    Try FaunaDB's GraphQL API▲42

    2019 · fauna.com · its alternatives →

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    Uniform GraphQL▲65

    GraphQL APIs in TypeScript with complete e2e type safety

    2021 · uniform-graphql.whatsgood.dog · its alternatives →

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    GraphQL lib for real-time apps▲68

    A flexible GraphQL client and server library that can be used to power realtime applications. - tjmehta/primus-graphql

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    GraphQL query client with Fetch▲11

    GraphQL client with Fetch. Contribute to gucheen/fetchql development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Easy Serverless GraphQL APIs with Serverless Framework AppSync▲90

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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