Open-source Firebase alternative — Postgres plus auth, storage, realtime, edge functions, and vector search.
Cloud data platform for data warehousing and analytics
Unified analytics platform built on Apache Spark
Serverless enterprise data warehouse on Google Cloud
Serverless Postgres with instant branching — separate storage and compute, scale to zero, fork prod data in seconds.
Serverless MySQL platform built on Vitess — horizontal scaling, schema branching, and non-blocking migrations.
Edge-distributed SQLite fork (libSQL) — replicate your database to hundreds of locations for low-latency reads.
Distributed SQL database — Postgres-compatible, horizontally scalable, with strong consistency and global replication.
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