A comparison of Supabase, Hasura and Aista

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Supabase

In only 2 years Supabase has dwarfed Hasura. In its existence it has achieved 39.400 stargazers at GitHub. Supabase is built on an entirely different technology. However, Supabase seems to have GraphQL initiatives in the making, and might deliver GraphQL later since it’s currently a BETA product they deliver. However, their primary product today is based upon PostgREST. PostgREST is a thin layer similar to OData that sits on top of your web server allowing you to transmit basic queries that are executed towards your database. It suffers from the same “business logic injection attack” problems as GraphQL, and simply moves the burden of implementing business logic to the client, solving few problems really.

#Developer Tools #Realtime Backend / API #Backend As A Service 427 social mentions

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SendGrid

If you don’t understand the problem related to business logic, have a key account manager at Supabase explain to you how you’d go about with sending an email as an endpoint is being invoked. This is a ridiculously simple “business logic use case”, and I suspect you can’t even do it in Supabase without invoking some 3rd party API, such as SendGrid from your client side frontend code. Notice, sending an email from your client side frontend code is a very, very, very bad thing! If you don’t understand why, let me enlighten you ...

#Email Delivery #Transactional Email #Email Marketing 106 social mentions

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Hasura

Hasura is smaller than Supabase. According to their GitHub profile, they have 28,124 stargazers as of today. Still they dwarf Aista’s GitHub profile in size with only 683 stargazers as of today. According to my knowledge Hasura is in round C of their VC investments, with the total amount of funding being between 100 million dollars and 200 million dollars in total.

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