“is supabase any good”
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Supabase is awesome and open-source
supabase is a good alternative
Switch to Supabase?
Have you tried supabase?
How does this compare with Supabase?
Recommend Supabase.
Supabase[1] is a popular, open-source[2], and very modern alternative with a great free tier!
You'd...use Supabase?
Actually, why not use Supabase now, outta curiosity?
Supabase kinda does this.
I would recommend supabase, used it in my side projects, couldn't be happier.
Can you speak more about the issues with Supabase you describe?
Supabase: are you listening?
Yes Supabase seems like a good bet. Parse is a good comparison: if you relied on them you can now host it yourself.
Supabase offers a lot more than edge functions (db, auth, etc). Take a look at their website
AFAIK I have not run supabase in my own infra but they seem to allow you to do so and are quite good citizens publishing all their built tools on top of pg or whatever and as far as I remember with sane licenses.
I love supabase, neon are new-ish but a great alterantive for hosted serverless databases (they also did a great staging-db-for-pr's) when launched that we integrated at work quite soon while on beta and saved a lot of headaches of introducing new features that touched database before
(supabase ceo)
Supabase gives you a full Postgres database, we position ourselves as a Firebase alternative because we offer a few other bells-and-whistles. The database is just postgres[0] and so it has more compatibility than bit.io offered[1]
[0] https://github.com/supabase/postgres
[1] bit.io compatability: https://docs.bit.io/docs/supported-sql
Supabase free tier is hard to beat. Worth checking out!
how does directus compare to supabase? anyone compare the two..
I’m curious why Supabase didn’t suit your needs, especially since you’re looking for Postgres support?
(Disclosure: supabase ceo)
See also, Supabase, a competitor to Appwrite.
Check out Supabase, you can have your cake and eat it too.
Pocketbase may be a Supabase alternative for you then: https://www.programonaut.com/pocketbase-vs-supabase-an-in-de...
Fireship 3m video about Pocketbase: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wqy3PBEglXQ
Why do you use supabase and not just postgres?
Do you use supabase’s api interface to do the queries? Or do you use supabase for other features?
Supabase user here. Ive been happy with Supabase. It feels like the recent launches have been underwhelming.
I am really pumped for Neon and think they are doing something more differentiated.
Supabase (YC S20) || Remote || Full-time || supabase.com Supabase is an open-source Backend platform offering a Postgres database, vector extensions, auth, real-time functionality, storage, restful APIs, and edge functions.
We're seeking a Cloud Platform / Site Reliability Engineer:
https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/supabase/3b26b2c9-1e30-4e15-ae31-0c...
More open jobs here https://supabase.com/careers, we manually check and respond to all the applications.
Any comparison with Supabase, which is also a backend-as-a-service? [0]
Yeah, supabase is great. I think if they could get the auth story a little more polished (it "works", but its definitely weak/buggy in some aspects compared to alternatives, and hard to use), and made some advanced use cases with Prisma easier to do (or better documented) since that's such a common pairing, they'd be even easier to recommend.
Right now I still use Supabase because I think they're a solid "Postgresql as a service" offering, but they're just SO CLOSE to being so much more than that. They have all the pieces, they just don't all work quite the way folks expect. They'll get there, I'm sure.
I'm a big fan of Supabase. It's a SAAS but you can self-host the open-source stack if you want, and their big goal is to have an array of out-of-the-box services (auth, realtime push, etc) built on tight integration with a Postgres database.
Never used Supabase before but I'm very much comfortable with their underlying stack. I use a combination of postgres, PostgREST, PLv8 and Auth0 to achieve nearly the same thing.
Supabase also offers data (DB as a service).
I wonder if that means Supabase can solve the (separate) user storage problem[1].
[1]: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1651434348174778370.html
Supabase is a frontend and API wrapper around a normal Postgres instance. It does nothing to the database itself and is not an alternative to AlloyDB.
Supabase integrates a lot of the open source tools listed here. A Postgrs backend as a service offering. Just started using it. Very impressed.
Friendly reminder that Supabase is really cool, and if you haven't tried it out you should do it (everything can be self hosted and they have generous free tiers!)
How different is this from Supabase Realtime?
Supabase is great and I’ve used it for a number of projects over the years both with a backend alongside it or direct from the client with RLS.
There are some weird edges (well really just faff) around auth with the JS library but if nothing else they are by far the cheapest hosted SQL offering I can find so any faff you don’t want to deal with there’s an excellent database right there to allow you to roll your own (assuming you have a backend server alongside it)
Please explain to me what's Supabase, but make it rhyme.
Supabase is a great place,
For hosting your database.
It's open source and free,
So you can use it with glee.
It's simple to get started,
No infrastructure to be charted.
It's a hosted platform,
So you can use it with no qualm.
I'd say Supabase is great at spinning up CRUD apps. If anything, this article could be summarized as "Because Val Town is much more than a CRUD app, they had a harder time with Supabase than the average."
Supabase is an open source Firebase alternative. We're building the _features_ of Firebase using open source tools: Postgres Database, Authentication, auto-generated APIs (PostgREST), Realtime subscriptions, and File Storage.
more details here: https://supabase.com/docs/architecture
Supabase has certainly been on my radar and is cool... but I haven't seen any indication that it's even remotely as popular as "this generation's database".
Does anyone have any opposing data points?
for what it's worth i use supabase because it's the fastest way to get from 0-1 for app development. most backend stuff for getting off the ground is not very interesting so getting the graphql api, oauth integration, db migrations, some user authorization story for free is what i'm looking for from supabase.
I'm very invested in Supabase. When I saw the title I thought this was going to be about extending self-hosted Supabase in a similar way as you can do in PocketBase[1] with go.
Still, interesting to read about how others use it.
Supabase is very resource intensive. Django+drf+ spectacular+filters+jwt gives you all the perks of supabase with
- much easier syntax
- much lighter weight
- alot higher productivity
- UI auto generation
Supabase is basically the anti-ORM. Set everything up and just start using it:
Supabase (YC S20) || Remote || Full-time || supabase.com
Supabase is an open-source Firebase alternative with over 60,000 stars on GitHub. In other words, it is a Backend platform offering a Postgres database, vector extensions, auth, real-time functionality, storage, restful APIs, and edge functions.
Top-3 positions we hire for right now:
- Site Reliability Engineer: Postgres https://boards.greenhouse.io/supabase/jobs/5162509004
- Customer Solution Architect
https://boards.greenhouse.io/supabase/jobs/5027144004
- Growth Marketer
https://boards.greenhouse.io/supabase/jobs/5072984004
Please, find the details and apply here https://supabase.com/careers, we manually check and respond to all the applications.
While you can use Supabase as simply a Postgres provider, the more interesting comparison IMO is to other backend-as-a-service providers. Supabase used to call themselves a “Firebase alternative” but at this point they have surpassed Firebase in almost every way, in my view.
While supabase could be considered a "technology" it's really more or less fancy wrappers around a postgres database. And even then, the wrappers it uses are rather well known:
- gotrue for auth, 3.2K GitHub stars
- postgREST to expost postgres as REST API, 19.8K GitHub stars
- kong as API gateway, 33.7K GitHub stars
> from supabase to remix.run
Supabase ceo here - Remix and Supabase serve 2 different purposes. Remix is a frontend framework, and Supabase is a backend framework. I hear they work very well together - although I haven't tried remix yet I see a lot of praise for it
Supabase (YC S20) || Remote || Full-time || supabase.com
Supabase is an open-source Firebase alternative with over 60,000 stars on GitHub. In other words, it is a Backend platform offering a Postgres database, vector extensions, auth, real-time functionality, storage, restful APIs, and edge functions.
Top-3 position we hire for right now:
- https://boards.greenhouse.io/supabase/jobs/5094802004 Cloud Infra Engineer (security focus)
- https://boards.greenhouse.io/supabase/jobs/5027144004 Customer Success Architect (Americas time-zone)
- https://boards.greenhouse.io/supabase/jobs/5072984004 Growth Marketer
Please, find the details and apply here https://supabase.com/careers, we manually check and respond to all the applications.
> Supabase is one of the most portable platforms out there
Not in my experience. The documentation and infra is just not there to make it easy to use an external postgres db.
Supabase is becoming quite impressive, I think the main thing missing is a native iOS/Android sdk.
That sounds about right from my understanding. Supabase was made as an alternative to firebase, acting as a data layer with a lot of features simplifying application development.
Planet Base feels like Snowflake, or some aspects of fly.io, or timescale's managed cloud offering; their focus is on the core database tech and delivering that in a scalable manner.
Supabase developer here. That's entirely correct. But in addition to an API wrapper around Postgres, Supabase also offers Storage, Auth, and Edge Functions as a complete baas -- it's not just a database backend.
quick aside note:
i heard great things about supabase and wanted to use it for auth. I wanted to maintain my own db, user tables etc.
but using supabase for auth, this means if need to play w RLS but i had a very simple db design and didn't want to include rls yet. supabase won't let me do it afaik.
so i switched to using ory/kratos ultimately.
also q, how heavily are we dependent on supabase ecosystem if all we want is the db?
Would be interesting to hear a response from Supabase, since their recent move off of PgBouncer on their platform.
Supabase (YC S20) || SRE: Security Focus || Fully remote || Full-time || supabase.com
Supabase is an open-source Firebase alternative with over 60,000 stars on GitHub. Supabase is a backend platform offering a Postgres database, vector extensions, auth, realtime, storage, restful APIs and edge functions.
We are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to manage the security of our hosted cloud offering, we currently manage over 1M Postgres instances and are growing fast. We are custodians of user data and securing their data is fundamental in ensuring users continue to trust us.
Please, find the details and apply here https://boards.greenhouse.io/supabase/jobs/5094802004, we manually check and respond to all the applications.
More about us and other positions: https://supabase.com/careers