Ex-Firebase investor co-leads a $10m seed round for the OSS alternative
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- Both are Open source - supabase has raised ~$ 36 M in total
Side note: Nice to see the space heating up again, just shows there is so much to be done to help developers
- Appwrite can be self hosted extremely easily and has support for multi-tenancy out of the box. Meaning a single instance of Appwrite supports unlimited accounts and projects. We have pre built images which you can spin up with just a single click on DO.
- Appwrite was designed to work along side your current stack and not replace it. So it plays really well with your current backend.
- Appwrite's developer experience is built around simplicity. You will notice that throughout our documentation. All the SDK calls and methods are extremely predictable making it extremely easy to build your apps.
- Appwrite has support for cloud functions out of the box with over 15 runtimes! So you can easily implement any custom logic in here
- We have SDKs for most of the popular languages and platforms including flutter, android, iOS, kotlin, python, php, javascript and more.
- Appwrite also has support for over 20 OAauth providers giving you complete flexibility!
- Appwrite has a completely stateless architecture. So scaling is limited only by the number of instances you can spin up!
- Appwrite also has an amazing and thriving developer community where you can come and hangout => appwrite.io/discord
Both are really great options, and probably you'd choose Appwrite for NoSQL and Supabase for Relational. We're an open source firebase alternative, but it might be simpler to think of us as an easy way to use Postgres.
- We are also self hosted [0], or we have a hosted platform with a free tier
- We give a full Postgres database - no abstractions. You create security rules using Postgres Row Level Security [1], have access to sql functions and triggers, a full gamut of Postgres extensions [2], views, roles etc. We provide a few additional services that you typically need when building a product - http API (PostgREST), connection pooling (pgbouncer), object storage, authentication + user management, dashboards, reports, etc.
- Our reads/writes are >300% faster than Firebase on our free tier [3]. This is mostly because of the performance of Postgres.
- For community, we also have discord [4] or GitHub discussions [5], depending on your preference
[0] Self hosting: https://supabase.io/docs/guides/hosting/overview
[1] RLS: https://supabase.io/docs/guides/auth/row-level-security
[2] Postgres extensions: https://supabase.io/docs/guides/database/extensions
[3] Performance: https://supabase.io/beta