Firebase is Dead: What is the Perfect Database in 2022?

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Supabase

#Developer Tools #Realtime Backend / API #Backend As A Service 431 social mentions

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PlanetScale

6. Planetscale with Prisma These are really two different products. Really you could choose any cloud hosted mySQL database and Plugin Prisma to it, but the Fireship guy tweeted about Planetscale (and they spend a lot of money on Google ads), so I suspect they're legit. I need to spend more time researching this. Technically there is some setup needed for Prisma. Prisma itself is in the top tier of GraphQL, has its own api too like Firebase, but no frontend caching like pure GraphQL with URQL or Apollo. Prisma has subscription capabilities. This may should be your best option... TBD.

#Vitess #Databases #Relational Databases 98 social mentions

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Nhost

Hasura gives you several choices of SQL databases to build on, but specializes in postgres. It also has the most advanced GraphQL engine that exists, although it is still missing some required features. You need to combine Hasura with Firebase Auth, auth0, or some other login system, but technically the middleware is there. It suffers the same scalable problems and feature problems as DGraph. You can also use NHost.io to automatically set up an instance of your database with a built in login system and file storage. I have not built anything complex with Hasura yet, but I have read about missing features like nested updates. I think once you get to the complex level, the GraphQL alone won't cut it. Honestly, no GraphQL cuts it... yet.

#Developer Tools #Backend As A Service #Realtime Backend / API 51 social mentions

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neo4j

5. Neo4j Neo4j is that 'most popular' graph database everyone knows. They focus too much on the analytical users, and are missing out on the Firebase users. They have advanced querying capabilities with cypher, math functions, and triggers. While they do have basic constraints, they do not have policies. However, you could write your own with triggers. Neo4j is really a beast and competes more with sql databases more than you know. However they're missing out. They offer a cloud platform, but expect you to host your own GraphQL. They could make this process easy. They also haven't developed subscriptions, although people keep asking for it. It supports huge amounts of data, but it does not support sharding like DGraph. I have heard DGraph users switched from neo4j due to the inability to support the large datasets. So the enterprise version can scale for high availability, so it sort of scales. Full disclosure: I have not tested any of this, nor am I an expert by any means.

#Graph Databases #Big Data #Databases 27 social mentions

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FaunaDB

#Developer Tools #Javascript UI Libraries #Backend As A Service 70 social mentions

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Dgraph

#Graph Databases #Databases #NoSQL Databases 20 social mentions