Database & Backend
Managed databases, serverless data stores, and backend-as-a-service platforms
Considérations Clés
- ✓ Data model (relational vs document vs key-value)
- ✓ Scaling model (serverless vs provisioned)
- ✓ Latency and geographic distribution
- ✓ Pricing per storage and compute
- ✓ Developer experience and SDK support
Airtable API
The Airtable API provides RESTful access to your Airtable bases, enabling CRUD operations on records, tables, and fields. Each base has its own auto-generated API documentation with table-specific endpoints.
Amazon Aurora
Amazon Aurora is a fully managed relational database with PostgreSQL and MySQL compatibility, delivering 5x MySQL and 3x PostgreSQL throughput. It offers up to 99.999% multi-region availability with Aurora DSQL for virtually unlimited distributed SQL scale.
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed, serverless NoSQL database with single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. It offers zero infrastructure management, instant scaling, and built-in security with global tables for multi-region deployment up to 99.999% availability.
Appwrite
Open-source backend platform for web, mobile, and Flutter apps. Provides authentication, databases, storage, functions, and messaging out of the box.
Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database is a fully managed relational database-as-a-service built on the Microsoft SQL Server engine. It provides built-in intelligence for performance tuning and threat detection, with 99.99% SLA, automated backups, geo-replication, and serverless auto-scaling options.
ClickHouse
ClickHouse is an open-source, column-oriented SQL database for real-time analytics (OLAP). It unifies observability, ML/GenAI, business intelligence, and other analytical workloads in one blazing-fast engine, scaling from laptops to petabyte-scale clusters.
CockroachDB
Distributed SQL database with automatic sharding, failover, and global consistency. PostgreSQL-compatible with serializable isolation and multi-region support.
Convex
Reactive backend platform with real-time database, serverless functions, and automatic caching. TypeScript-first with end-to-end type safety and subscriptions.
Crunchy Data
Crunchy Data provides enterprise-ready PostgreSQL solutions across cloud, Kubernetes, and on-premises environments. With 100% open-source PostgreSQL (no private forks), they offer fully managed Crunchy Bridge, Kubernetes operator, and certified PostgreSQL distributions.
Drizzle ORM
Drizzle ORM is a lightweight, type-safe TypeScript ORM with both relational and SQL-like query APIs. It's dialect-specific, performant, and serverless-ready, with support for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, and numerous hosted database services.
EdgeDB (Gel)
EdgeDB (now rebranded as Gel) is a graph-relational database built on PostgreSQL. It features EdgeQL, a modern query language combining SQL and GraphQL concepts, with built-in authentication, AI capabilities with automatic embeddings, and type-safe schema with code generation.
Firebase Firestore
NoSQL document database from Google with real-time sync, offline support, and seamless scaling. Part of the Firebase platform with tight mobile SDK integration.
MongoDB Atlas
Fully managed MongoDB in the cloud with automatic scaling, backups, and global distribution. Includes Atlas Search, Vector Search, and serverless instances.
Neon
Serverless Postgres with scale-to-zero, branching, and autoscaling. Separates storage and compute for instant provisioning. Microsoft Azure partnership.
Notion API
The Notion API enables developers to integrate with Notion workspaces, querying and updating pages, databases, blocks, and users. It supports both traditional integrations and AI-powered agentic workflows through Notion MCP.
PlanetScale
Serverless MySQL platform with database branching, non-blocking schema changes, and horizontal sharding. Built on Vitess, the system that powers YouTube.
Prisma
Prisma is a next-generation TypeScript ORM with auto-generated, type-safe queries and an intuitive data model. It includes Prisma Client, Prisma Migrate, Prisma Studio, and now offers instant PostgreSQL databases with Prisma Postgres.
Redis Cloud
Fully managed Redis by the Redis company. Real-time data platform with Redis Stack features. Auto-scaling, multi-cloud, and Active-Active geo-distribution.
SingleStore
SingleStore (formerly MemSQL) is a distributed SQL database known for speed in data ingest, transaction processing, and query processing. It stores relational, JSON, geospatial, vector, and time series data in a unified platform supporting both transactional and analytical workloads.
Supabase
Open source Firebase alternative with Postgres database, authentication, instant APIs, edge functions, realtime subscriptions, and storage. Full backend platform.
SurrealDB
SurrealDB is a unified multi-model database combining document, graph, time-series, relational, geospatial, vector, and key-value data models. Purpose-built for AI agents with integrated search capabilities blending semantic, graph, and relational intelligence.
TiDB
TiDB is an open-source, MySQL-compatible, distributed SQL database by PingCAP. Trusted by LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Square, it offers seamless scalability to petabytes, built-in resilience, and supports transactional, analytical, operational, and AI workloads without manual sharding.
Tiger Data (Timescale)
PostgreSQL-based data platform for demanding workloads. Formerly Timescale, now Tiger Data. Features TimescaleDB for time-series, Tiger Cloud, and Agentic Postgres for AI agents. Used by Cloudflare, Hugging Face, and Toyota.
Turso
Edge-native SQLite database built on libSQL. Databases replicate globally to 35+ locations with sub-millisecond reads. Embedded replicas for offline-first apps.
Upstash
Serverless Redis and Kafka with pay-per-request pricing. Scale to zero, global replication, and REST API for edge functions. Built for serverless architectures.
Xata
Serverless Postgres platform with built-in full-text search, vector search, and file attachments. Spreadsheet-like UI with branching and zero-downtime migrations.
YugabyteDB
YugabyteDB is an AI-ready, distributed PostgreSQL-compatible database built by ex-Facebook engineers. It combines PostgreSQL compatibility with built-in resilience, scalability, and enterprise capabilities including advanced vector indexing for RAG and GenAI applications.