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Re:Poor Man's Back End-as-a-Service (BaaS), Similar to Fireb... by zffr on Thursday July 03, 2025 @01:41PM (#44457440)
What’s the other candidate besides pocketbase?
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Re:Poor Man's Back End-as-a-Service (BaaS), Similar to Fireb... by CharlesW on Thursday July 03, 2025 @02:33PM (#44457932)
Apologies to anyone who found this unclear — the two near-perfect tiny candidate databases are SQLite and DuckDB.
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Re:Poor Man's Back End-as-a-Service (BaaS), Similar to Fireb... by zffr on Thursday July 03, 2025 @02:38PM (#44457986)
My understanding is that SQLite is OLTP and duckdb is OLAP. Duckdb is column based so not a great fit for a traditional backend db
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Re:Poor Man's Back End-as-a-Service (BaaS), Similar to Fireb... by fmbb on Friday July 04, 2025 @06:52AM (#44463359)
The data files are not human readable though, right?
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Re:Poor Man's Back End-as-a-Service (BaaS), Similar to Fireb... by jonny_eh on Thursday July 03, 2025 @01:42PM (#44457451)
Firebase, Supabase, Pocketbase
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