Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

SlicingDice is a serverless data warehouse launched in 2017 that enables users to store and query large datasets without managing infrastructure. The platform handles data processing and storage automatically, making… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. SlicingDice – Serverless Data Warehouse launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   SlicingDice.com - Serverless Data Warehouse▲8

   UNLIMITED Data Warehouse and Analytics Database

   2017 · slicingdice.com · its alternatives →

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   SlicingDice 2.0▲71

   The all-in-one data solution

   2018 · its alternatives →

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   Peaka▲560

   Modernizing the 'modern' data stack with Zero-ETL

   2024 · peaka.com · its alternatives →

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   Flatfile▲1,069

   The data onboarding platform

   2019 · flatfile.com · its alternatives →

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   Prisma Postgres▲262

   The future of serverless databases

   2025 · prisma.io · its alternatives →

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   Pylar▲502

   Hey HN! We're Hoshang & Vishal, the team behind Pylar - a governed access layer between databases and LLMs. We previously led data and AI and we kept seeing the same problem across teams using LLMs internally: agents are great with unstructured data, but the moment you want them touching your actual systems of record — Snowflake, Postgres, CRMs, product DBs — everything becomes fragile, risky, or outright unsafe. Two issues show up every single time: 1. Agents over-querying They don’t understand cost. They’ll happily generate queries that blow up your warehouse bill. 2. Accidental data…

   Dec 2025 · pylar.ai · its alternatives →

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   Stackby▲270

   Spreadsheets, Databases and No-code APIs in one platform

   2021 · stackby.com · its alternatives →

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   MotherDuck▲340

   Now GA: the ducking simple analytics data warehouse

   2024 · motherduck.com · its alternatives →

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   Baserow▲341

   Baserow 2.0 introduces workflow automations, the Kuma AI assistant, date dependencies, smarter AI fields, workspace search, and improved security with 2FA.

   2022 · baserow.io · its alternatives →

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    PlanetScale▲215

    The MySQL-compatible serverless database platform

    2021 · planetscale.com · its alternatives →

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    Turbolite – a SQLite VFS serving sub-250ms cold JOIN queries from S3▲185

    I built a SQLite VFS in Rust that serves cold queries directly from S3 with sub-second performance, and often much faster. It’s called turbolite. It is experimental, buggy, and may corrupt data. I would not trust it with anything important yet. I wanted to explore whether object storage has gotten fast enough to support embedded databases over cloud storage. Filesystems reward tiny random reads and in-place mutation. S3 rewards fewer requests, bigger transfers, immutable objects, and aggressively parallel operations where bandwidth is often the real constraint. This was explicitly inspired…

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Realm (YC S11), a mobile database▲188

    2014 · realm.io · its alternatives →

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    Serverless Analytics Built from Scratch▲114

    2018 · statsbotco.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Sliced▲257

    Find opportunities to reverse climate change.

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    ShapedQL▲211

    The SQL engine for search, feeds, and AI agents

    Jan 2026 · its alternatives →

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    Prisma Cloud▲269

    GraphQL database platform

    2018 · app.prisma.io · its alternatives →

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    PlanetScale Beta▲271

    The last database you'll ever need. Go from idea to IPO.

    2021 · planetscale.com · its alternatives →

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    Stackby – Spreadsheets, Databases and No-code APIs in a single platform▲92

    Stackby combines spreadsheets, relational databases, AI fields & agents and automations in one no-code workspace. Free for up to 5 users — no credit card required.

    2021 · stackby.com · its alternatives →

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    LatticeDB – Like SQLite but for graph databases▲190

    We have been using graph DBs more and more at work. I found them painful to work with locally and decided to try and build something better.

    Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    JawsDB▲116

    Fast, reliable, no-bullshark MySQL as a service

    2017 · jawsdb.com · its alternatives →

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    HelixDB – Open-source vector-graph database for AI applications (Rust)▲237

    Hey HN, we want to share HelixDB (https://github.com/HelixDB/helix-db/), a project a college friend and I are working on. It’s a new database that natively intertwines graph and vector types, without sacrificing performance. It’s written in Rust and our initial focus is on supporting RAG. Here’s a video runthrough: https://screen.studio/share/szgQu3yq. Why a hybrid? Vector databases are useful for similarity queries, while graph databases are useful for relationship queries. Each stores data in a way that’s best for its main type of query (e.g.…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Slice Design System▲186

    Make better UI with modular design system

    2019 · slice.design · its alternatives →

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    TiloDB – serverless entity resolution technology▲19

    2021 · tilodb.com · its alternatives →

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    Napkin – Build back-end functions in the browser▲158

    Create and deploy serverless cloud functions instantly, all from the browser.

    2021 · napkin.io · its alternatives →

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