Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Stargate – An open source API framework for data
We’re excited to release the first preview of Stargate, an open source API framework for data. This project came about because we got tired of using different databases and different APIs depending on the work that we were trying to get done. With “read the manual” fatigue and lengthy selection proc
Stargate is an open source API framework designed to simplify data access. It enables developers to build and deploy APIs for databases without extensive custom code. The framework abstracts database complexity… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Stargate – An open source API framework for data launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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DGate is fast and easy-to-use database client and SQL editor for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MongoDB and more. For desktop and web, it's open-source.
2021 · dbgate.org · its alternatives →
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Build beautiful documentation websites with ease
2023 · starlight.astro.build · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, we’re Stefan and Adina, and we’re building superglue (https://superglue.cloud). superglue allows you to connect to any API/data source and get the data you want in the format you need. It’s an open-source proxy server which sits between you and your target APIs. Thus, you can easily deploy it into your own infra. If you’re spending a lot of time writing code connecting to weird APIs, fumbling with custom fields in foreign language ERPs, mapping JSONs, extracting data from compressed CSVs sitting on FTP servers, and making sure your integrations don’t break when…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Anything API▲656Hey HN! We built Notte, a browser infrastructure and agents platform. Many of our users automate UI workflows or extract data from sites that don’t have APIs. In practice, we noticed that once an agent understands how a site works, parts of the task can often run without a browser by interacting with the same network requests the site uses. So we built Anything API: describe a browser task, and our agent explores the site, builds a function, tests it against your description, and deploys a callable REST endpoint. No infra to manage. How the build works: - Describe the task (best results come…
Mar 2026 · anything.notte.cc · its alternatives →
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ExploreYC▲565Open-source API for Y Combinator & a16z company data
Jul 2026 · exploreyc.com · its alternatives →
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Metabase▲313Open source business intelligence - Installs in 5 minutes
2015 · metabase.com · its alternatives →
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Modern, fast, and easy to use SQL GUI. Loads of supported databases & full feature parity across all OSes.
2020 · beekeeperstudio.io · its alternatives →
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With the OpenDataDiscovery Platform, you can collect metadata from any data source, regardless of format or location. This powerful platform provides data discovery, observability, and trust for your entire data pipeline.
2022 · opendatadiscovery.org · its alternatives →
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Metabase grounds every answer in your semantic layer — your metrics and business logic — so you can inspect the query behind it.
2015 · metabase.com · its alternatives →
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I just shipped the first public version of datasette, a new tool for creating and publishing JSON APIs for SQLite databases. You can try out out right now at fivethirtyeight.datasettes.com, …
2017 · simonwillison.net · its alternatives →
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tl;dr we at Escape (YC W23), we scanned 5651+ public APIs on the internet with our in house feedback driven API exploration tech, and ranked them using security, performance, reliability, and design criteria. The results are public on https://apirank.dev. You can request that we index your own API to the list for free and see how it compares to others. Why we did that? During a YC meetup I spoke with a fellow founder that told me how hard it was to pick the right external APIs to use within your own projects. I realized that most of what we build relies on public APIs from external…
2023 · apirank.dev · its alternatives →
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been working on this for nearly a year
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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FastOpenAPI is a library for generating and integrating OpenAPI schemas using Pydantic v2 and various frameworks (AioHttp, Django, Falcon, Flask, Quart, Sanic, Starlette, Tornado). - mr-fatalyst/fastopenapi
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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🦉⚡️Serverless, distributed vector database as an API - TimeSurgeLabs/athenadb
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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API-based platform to build ideal data-file import solutions
2023 · flatfile.com · its alternatives →
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Dear HN, I am Riwaj, the cofounder of dstack.ai (https://github.com/dstackai). A few months ago, we built an online service that allows users to publish data visualizations from Python or R. The idea was to build a tool that did not require additional programming or front-end development for publishing data visualizations. Such a code can be invoked from either Jupyter notebook, RMarkdown, Python, or R scripts. Once the data is pushed, it can be accessed via a browser. Open-sourcing dstack: During our customer discovery phase, we realized that dstack.ai should integrate a lot…
2020 · its alternatives →
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Hi HN community, I’m Nick, co-founder/CEO of Transform.co. I’m thrilled to share MetricFlow, an open-source metric creation framework: https://github.com/transform-data/metricflow MetricFlow strives to make what has historically been an extremely repetitive process, writing SQL queries on core normalized data models, much more DRY. MetricFlow consolidates the definitions for joins, aggregations, filters, etc., and programmatically generates SQL to construct data marts. You can think of it like LookML, but more powerful and ergonomic (and open source!). The project…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! Wanted to share a project I have been working. Data Connector is an open source tool for interacting with Databases (Postgres, MySQL, SQLite) using natural language. Prompts are handled using a ReAct[1] agent which has access to the schema and a tool for executing queries. It also has experimental[2] support for calling APIs (OpenAPI, GraphQL) which allows for queries that can span multiple systems (Find this user's details in Clerk, etc). We have mostly been using it for managing our local development environment, but it has configurable controls for running in other environments. -…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Yaade is an open-source, self-hosted, collaborative API development environment. - EsperoTech/yaade
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I'm excited to share Orbital, a new approach for unifying APIs and Data sources! Rather than relying on glue code to bridge endpoints, Orbital leverages annotations in schemas & API specs to build the integration dynamically. The traditional method of crafting glue code often becomes repetitive and burdensome to maintain in the long run. With Orbital, developers embed tags to their existing API specs (OAP, Protobuf, etc), indicating where data can be sourced, and publish these specs to Orbital (which runs self-hosted). Consumers query these tags with our TaxiQL language, and Orbital…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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