I really want Supabase to take off. For me, the #1 reason not to go with Firebas...

pier25 · on April 30, 2021

For #1 you could check out Fauna. Much more powerful than Firebase regarding querying and data modeling.

With Fauna you still get vendor lock-in though.

yawnxyz · on April 30, 2021

i've moved from Fauna to Supabase... their FQL language was kind of confusing and poorly documented compared to Supabase

jadbox · on April 30, 2021

If Fauna went open-source, I'd make the case to pay for their hosting. There's business value in just having the option to host it internally or make modifications.

pier25 · on May 1, 2021

I agree. I love Fauna, and I'd definitely use their hosting even if they offered a self hosting option, but the closed source and vendor lock-in are really strong points.

kabes · on April 30, 2021

For 2 you could look at meteor, which does a similar thing with mongo. It's not relational, but with supabasr you also don't really get the advantages of a relational db, since the update events are about single tables.