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[cercatrova]

Any comparison with Supabase, which is also a backend-as-a-service? [0]

[0] https://supabase.com/

[stnguyen90 → cercatrova]

Couple of points here: https://medium.com/geekculture/appwrite-frequently-asked-que...

[eldad_fux → cercatrova]

Both products are great, at Appwrite we created the majority of the product from scratch in aim to have tailored made dev-experience which was a big reason for starting the project from the first place.

[spankalee → cercatrova]

Supabase uses Postgres instead of a Firestore like database, so it's not really a clone of Firebase.

[cercatrova → spankalee]

Postgres supports jsonb which I've used with Supabase to act as a Firebase analog. I just pushed all data into a JSON blob rather than setting up tables, it worked well, pretty much the same as how I used Firebase.

[christyjacob4 → spankalee]

I'm trying to be as objective as I can, but building the entire ecosystem around a single product like Postgres ( even though tried and tested ) comes with its own downsides...