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24 alternatives to TiDB 1.0 is production ready
Two and a half years ago, Edward, Dylan, and I started this journey to build a new database for an old problem that has long plagued the infrastructure software industry. Today, we are proud to announce that this database, TiDB, is production ready. Abraham Lincoln once said, ‘the best way to predict the future is to create it.’ The future we predicted 771 days ago we now have created, because of the hard work and dedication of not just every member of our team, but also every contributor, user, and partner in our open source community. Today, we celebrate and pay gratitude to the power of…
TiDB is a distributed database designed to address long-standing infrastructure challenges in the software industry. Built over two and a half years of development, it combines horizontal scalability with relational… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. TiDB 1.0 is production ready launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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EdgeDB 1.0▲947Today, after years of research, development, and refinement EdgeDB graduates to a production-ready database. We are very proud to announce EdgeDB 1.0.
2022 · edgedb.com · its alternatives →
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Hey there HN! We’re Joe and Stopa, and today we’re open sourcing InstantDB, a client-side database that makes it easy to build real-time and collaborative apps like Notion and Figma. Building modern apps these days involves a lot of schleps. For a basic CRUD app you need to spin up servers, wire up endpoints, integrate auth, add permissions, and then marshal data from the backend to the frontend and back again. If you want to deliver a buttery smooth user experience, you’ll need to add optimistic updates and rollbacks. We do these steps over and over for every feature we build, which can…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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One year ago I open-sourced my very first 'real' project and shared it here. I was a college student in my senior year and desperately looking for a job. At the time of sharing it i couldn't even afford a domain and naively let someone buy the one i had my eyes on lol. It's been a hell of a year with this blowing up, me moving to another country, and switching 2 jobs. In a year we somehow managed to hit 26k stars, grow a 1000+ person discord community, and support 37 languages. I couldn't be more grateful for the community that helped this grow, but now i don't know what direction to take…
2025 · drawdb.app · its alternatives →
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2020 · textdb.dev · its alternatives →
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Visual SQL▲512Through months of design, prototypes, and user tests we made a visual version of SQL - which has proven to enable 80% of business users to write complex quer…
2020 · chartio.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · easydb.io · its alternatives →
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InstantDB▲320Complete backend with auth and storage in one prompt
Apr 2026 · instantdb.com · its alternatives →
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https://www.manning.com/books/data-oriented-programming-in-j... This book is a distillation of everything I’ve learned about what effective development looks like in Java (so far!). It's about how to organize programs around data "as plain data" and the surprisingly benefits that emerge when we do. Programs that are built around the data they manage tend to be simpler, smaller, and significantly easier understand. Java has changed radically over the last several years. It has picked up all kinds of new language features which support data oriented programming (records,…
2024 · its alternatives →
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Baserow▲341Baserow 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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2017 · conferencelist.co · its alternatives →
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2022 · stateofdb.com · its alternatives →
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Hello! For the past year I’ve been working on a fully-managed data warehouse built on Clickhouse. I built this because I was frustrated with how much work was required to run an OLAP database in prod: re-writing my app to do batch inserts, managing clusters and needing to look up special CREATE TABLE syntax every time I made a change. I found pricing for other warehouses confusing (what is a “credit” exactly?) and worried about getting capacity-planning wrong. I was previously building accounting software for firms with millions of transactions. I desperately needed to move from Postgres to…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · terminusdb.com · its alternatives →
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Hey all! I released drawDB about a month ago and now it's open source. I hope you find it useful. If you want to check out the app you can go to https://drawdb.vercel.app/ . Thank you:)
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · spreadsheetdb.io · its alternatives →
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TerminusDB is a distributed, collaborative database designed for building, sharing, versioning, and reasoning on structured data. - terminusdb/terminusdb
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Bytebase 2.0▲88Database schema change and version control for developers
2023 · bytebase.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! We are Jonathan & Guy, and we are happy to share a project we’ve been working on. ChartDB is a tool to help developers and data analysts quickly visualize database schemas by generating ER diagrams with just one query. A unique feature of our product is AI-Powered export for easy migration. You can give it a try at https://chartdb.io and find the source code on GitHub. Next steps ---> More AI. We’d love feedback :)
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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QuestDB▲194Fastest open source database for time-series and analytics
2020 · questdb.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · thebigdb.com · its alternatives →
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