Launch HN: Outerbase (YC W23) – A new UI and editor for your database

Re:Launch HN: Outerbase (YC W23) – A new UI and editor for y... by samanator on Thursday March 16, 2023 @03:14PM (#35186869)

Will this be the interface that I need?

Mathesar ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34999774 ) was the last one I tried out but it couldn't support more than 250k rows without crashing and required foreign keys in order to infer relationships. Otherwise it's exactly what I want. An Excel/Airtable interface around a raw database connection.

How does Outerbase compare?

Edit:

Mistypes

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Re:Launch HN: Outerbase (YC W23) – A new UI and editor for y... by brayden_wilmoth on Thursday March 16, 2023 @03:21PM (#35186959)

We hope that it is the interface that you need!

To be entirely candid and honest, returning a lot of rows presents problems on our end as well at the moment. It's something we are actively working on improving for large data sets to create the best user experience without having to concern yourself about what you're returning.

For our EZQL (natural language to SQL) you don't necessarily need to have foreign keys to infer relationships between tables. We try to infer those relationships for you.

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Re:Launch HN: Outerbase (YC W23) – A new UI and editor for y... by kgodey on Thursday March 16, 2023 @04:06PM (#35187660)

Mathesar core team member here. I don't want to distract from Outerbase's launch, but if you have time, would you be able to open an issue for the crash at https://github.com/centerofci/mathesar? We're still in alpha and relying on people checking out the project to report problems like these so we can fix them.

Also, relationships without foreign keys is on our roadmap: https://github.com/centerofci/mathesar/discussions/2276

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Re:Launch HN: Outerbase (YC W23) – A new UI and editor for y... by samanator on Thursday March 16, 2023 @04:40PM (#35188205)

Sure! I'll file it this weekend.

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