services-flake VS pglite

Compare services-flake vs pglite and see what are their differences.

pglite

Lightweight Postgres packaged as WASM into a TypeScript library for the browser, Node.js, Bun and Deno (by electric-sql)
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services-flake pglite
1 6
194 4,424
16.3% 11.5%
9.2 8.4
2 days ago 17 days ago
Nix TypeScript
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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services-flake

Posts with mentions or reviews of services-flake. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-27.
  • Testcontainers
    16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Feb 2024
    If your project uses Nix, checkout services-flake for running services via Nix.

    https://github.com/juspay/services-flake

    We actually do this in Nammayatri, an OSS project providing "Uber" for autos in India.

    https://github.com/nammayatri/nammayatri

    There is a services-flake module allowing you to spin the entire nammayatri stack (including postgres, redis, etc.) using a flake app. Similarly, there's one for running load test, which is also run in Jenkins CI.

pglite

Posts with mentions or reviews of pglite. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-07.
  • Show HN: I open-sourced the in-memory PostgreSQL I built at work for E2E tests
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Apr 2024
    Hey HN! For a few months, I've been building pgmock at work for our E2E and unit test suite. It emulates Postgres in WebAssembly and has full feature parity with production databases.

    The cool thing about it is that you don't need any external processes or proxies. If your platform can run WASM (Node.js, browser, etc.), it can probably run pgmock. Creating a new database with mock data is as simple as creating a JavaScript object.

    It's a bit different from the amazing pglite [1] (which inspired me to open-source pgmock in the first place). While pgmock runs an x86 emulator, pglite compiles a Postgres fork to native WASM directly and is hence much faster and more lightweight. However, it only supports single-user mode and a select few extensions, so you can't connect to it with normal Postgres clients (which is quite crucial for E2E testing).

    Theoretically, it could be modified to run any Docker image on WebAssembly platforms. Anything specific you'd like to see?

    Happy hacking!

    [1] https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite

  • Pgmock: In-memory Postgres for unit/E2E tests
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Apr 2024
  • Soul: A SQLite REST and Realtime Server
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Mar 2024
    I've found postgres via docker to be fine for dev and testing, but there are various epheremal postgres scripts, plus this could be promising for node stuff https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite if it works out. I'd imagine if this does work out we'll see the same kind of builds for other runtimes as well (like python)
  • The Cell Programming Language
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Mar 2024
    > Use SQLite for everything, or Postgres if you outgrow it.

    Or both! ElectricSQL syncs front end SQLlite back to server side postgres. And they just rebuilt postgres on pure WASM (https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite). All ties together with a CRDT.

    I'm not affiliated, but just think it's just cool to imagine calls to front end sqllite as the be-all-end-all.

  • Testcontainers
    16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Feb 2024
  • PGlite – Postgres in WASM
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Feb 2024

What are some alternatives?

When comparing services-flake and pglite you can also consider the following projects:

embedded-postgres-binaries - Lightweight bundles of PostgreSQL binaries with reduced size intended for testing purposes.

dockertest - Write better integration tests! Dockertest helps you boot up ephermal docker images for your Go tests with minimal work.

phoenix_container_example - Production-quality example for Elixir/Phoenix building, testing, and running in containers

otj-pg-embedded - Java embedded PostgreSQL component for testing

latte - Latte is a modern data engineering toolkit.

gradle-docker-compose-plugin - Simplifies usage of Docker Compose for integration testing in Gradle environment.

testcontainers-node - Testcontainers is a NodeJS library that supports tests, providing lightweight, throwaway instances of common databases, Selenium web browsers, or anything else that can run in a Docker container.