Mathesar Alternatives

Mathesar reviews and mentions

• Mathesar – An intuitive spreadsheet-like interface on Postgres
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jan 2025

  Just a heads-up, I’m opinionated on this!

  Every app has some terminology you need to learn to use it effectively, we just think that terminology should actually map to how databases work, rather than being an arbitrary abstraction. Instead of inventing our own terms, we stick to tables, records, schemas, and relationships so that users who learn Mathesar are also learning concepts that translate directly to Postgres (or relational databases in general).

  Making software approachable isn’t about hiding complexity, it’s about presenting it well. The UI patterns you use determine whether a system feels intuitive, not whether the underlying mental model is simple. A well-designed interface can make even complex concepts feel natural, while a bad one can make simple tasks frustrating. Mathesar doesn’t make databases approachable by pretending tables aren’t tables, it makes them approachable by using familiar interactions, and progressively exposing complexity.

  We do want to work on surveys ("forms") soon, and we're definitely thinking about bulk actions and integrations as well. Please feel free to open a feature request on https://github.com/mathesar-foundation/mathesar/issues for anything that would particularly help your use case.

• Show HN: Visual DB – Web front end for your database
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Sep 2024

  I'll throw in https://github.com/mathesar-foundation/mathesar (disclaimer: I work on it).

• Show HN: Teable – Open-Source No-Code Database Fusion of Postgres and Airtable
  8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Mar 2024

  Congratulations on launching, it's nice to see more open source products in this area (I work on https://mathesar.org/). Feel free to reach out if you'd like to talk and compare notes.

• A modern, open-source spreadsheet that goes beyond the grid
  8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Oct 2023

  This is what we're trying to do with [Mathesar](https://github.com/centerofci/mathesar). We probably don't meet your needs yet because we don't support real-time concurrent editing, but we're actively working on the project and it is early days.

• Show HN: Visual DB – Airtable alternative for your own database
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Aug 2023

  I'm an engineer on the Mathesar core team and I'd just like to clarify that Mathesar does support grouping to some extent. Here is a screenshot[1] that demonstrates the grouping functionality. Grouping levels are unlimited. You can play with this functionality on our live demo[2]. It's worth mentioning that Mathesar does not yet have the capability to expand and collapse groups, but that feature is planned[3].

  Best of luck building Visual DB! Nice to see more innovation in this space!

  [1]: https://mathesar.org/assets/crm-table-zoomed.png

  [2]: https://demo.mathesar.org/

  [3]: https://github.com/centerofci/mathesar/issues/475

• Ask HN: What’s the best GUI you’ve ever used for managing/querying databases?
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Jul 2023

  I’m not sure if it’s okay to plug my project, but I work on Mathesar (https://github.com/centerofci/mathesar) which can be used as a Postgres GUI. We’re putting a lot of product/design effort into making it nice to use for non technical users.

  Otherwise, I just use the command line.

• I'm So Frustrated Finding a NocoDB Alternative (Need a Postgres / SQL-Based Spreadsheet)
  1 project | /r/selfhosted | 4 Jul 2023

  We're trying to do this with Mathesar: https://github.com/centerofci/mathesar. Some feedback would be great!

• Undb – open-source airtable alternative
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jun 2023

  We're trying to build a community driven project in this space - https://github.com/centerofci/mathesar. We just did our alpha release a couple of months ago.

  I'm philosophically opposed to open core (Mathesar is run out of a non-profit), but I can see why other projects do it – finding funding for a big project like this is difficult without VCs (who expect returns).

• MS Access alternative?
  1 project | /r/MSAccess | 14 Jun 2023

  I'm working on https://mathesar.org/ – it's an open source database solution built on Postgres, you can import data, connect to multiple databases, edit data and build reports. It can't connect to non-Postgres databases, so it may not work for you.

• Release announcement: Mathesar v0.1.2
  1 project | /r/mathesar_org | 13 Jun 2023

  We've just released Mathesar v0.1.2. Major new features are support for multiple databases in the UI and more options for installing Mathesar. We also made a bunch of smaller UX improvements and fixed a few bugs. Our full release notes are here: https://github.com/centerofci/mathesar/releases/tag/0.1.2

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