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Nocodb is great, however I think it doesn't support Firestore. We are build on the GCP/Firebase stack and deeply aim to solve for all the pain points of Google Cloud ecosystem.

Thanks for the shoutout (NocoDB founder here). Rowy demo looks good. Would love to try it.

NocoDB works differently than rowy, we transform ANY existing MySQL/Postgres/SQLite into Airtable like spreadsheet.

Github : https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb

Docker : docker run -d -p 8080:8080 nocodb/nocodb

The screenshots look to me like half smart spreadsheet, half automagic admin ui on steroids. And I mean this positively, that's really rather impressive looking.

Thank you NocoDB for supporting mysql, so I don't have to maintain another type of database and mysql is easy to sync to our analytics

Thank you, what analytics are you using with mysql ?

Here's our stack:

RDS MySQL (our production apps, nocodb) -> Alibaba DTS -> Alibaba AnalyticDB for MySQL

it's realtime & easy to setup, operate, and maintain

don't have to create a separate postgresql instance, unlike Baserow

And directus! [0] I’m not affiliated, just love it.

[0] https://directus.io

BaseRow looks way cooler to me and immediately obvious ie. I know how I would use it.

Thanks for posting.

BaseRow in my understanding is a no-code database very similar to Airtable, however we are building a low-code platform which shows your Firestore database in an Airtable-like experience. Which means no limitations that comes with a no-code platform like scalability, not synced to your production apps, limited storage, and inability to control access at a granular level, feature limitations.

With Rowy, you can not just view your Firestore data in Airtable-like UI but also build cloud functions, connect to any third party tool, use NPMs and APIs right in the browser without the hassle of CLIs, terminals or native consoles.

What scale have you tested the UI at? Do you have any demo / benchmarks for over 1M rows for example?

Reading through the infinite scrolling PR [1] it looks like scrolling isn’t virtualized (like Airtable’s) so the browser will start choking when it has too many elements in the DOM.

[1] https://github.com/rowyio/rowy/pull/29

Hey, I’m one of the engineers working on Rowy. We use react-data-grid [1], which has built-in support for virtualized lists rendering. They have demo of a table with 1000 rows and the scrolling stays smooth [2]

[1] https://github.com/adazzle/react-data-grid/ [2] https://adazzle.github.io/react-data-grid/#/common-features

Hey, thanks for clarifying but what is appealing there is that you can use Postgres for backend and it would work with that. You have very focused solution on Google environment.

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