Database Review: Top Five Missing Features from Database APIs

• Hasura

  228 30,810 9.8 TypeScript

  Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on your DB with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events.

  

Hasura ✅❌ - Insert but not Update

• Prisma

  442 37,151 9.9 TypeScript

  Next-generation ORM for Node.js & TypeScript | PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, SQLite, MongoDB and CockroachDB

  

Prisma (ORM)

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• drizzle-orm

  47 19,712 9.7 TypeScript

  Headless TypeScript ORM with a head. Runs on Node, Bun and Deno. Lives on the Edge and yes, it's a JavaScript ORM too 😅

  

Drizzle ORM

• MongoDB

  248 25,418 10.0 C++

  The MongoDB Database

  

MongoDB (Mongoose)

• valibot

  6 5,159 9.9 TypeScript

  The modular and type safe schema library for validating structural data 🤖

Valibot (good for types and constraints)

• surrealdb

  93 25,191 9.8 Rust

  A scalable, distributed, collaborative, document-graph database, for the realtime web

  

SurrealDB

• supabase

  767 65,869 10.0 TypeScript

  The open source Firebase alternative.

  

Supabase (postgREST, Auth)

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• Pusher

  13 663 0.0 Ruby

  Ruby library for Pusher Channels HTTP API

  

Pusher

• nhost

  88 7,512 9.8 TypeScript

  The Open Source Firebase Alternative with GraphQL.

  

Hasura ❌ (technically yes with Nhost)

• Neo4j

  49 12,454 9.9 Java

  Graphs for Everyone

  

Neo4j (GraphQL)

• kysely

  26 9,289 9.3 TypeScript

  A type-safe typescript SQL query builder

  

Kysely

• ApacheKafka

  104 28 0.0

  A curated re-sources list for awesome Apache Kafka

Kafka (most complex)

• grafbase

  9 981 9.9 Rust

  The future of APIs

  

Grafbase (GraphQL)

• quickstart-android

  335 8,730 7.9 Java

  Firebase Quickstart Samples for Android

  

Firebase (use a second database for realtime part)

• dgraph

  34 20,059 8.8 Go

  The high-performance database for modern applications

  

Dgraph (GraphQL, DQL)

• next-auth

  203 22,158 9.9 TypeScript

  Authentication for the Web.

  

AuthJS - still not sure why NextAuth and AuthJS are still separate things? Combine them please, including the website. This is confusing!

• react-native-auth0

  58 465 8.8 JavaScript

  React Native toolkit for Auth0 API

  

Auth0 - not free

• Appwrite

  581 41,016 10.0 TypeScript

  Build like a team of hundreds_

  

Appwrite (REST, GraphQL)

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

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