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Supabase

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Postgres-powered backend platform for production apps

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Supabase gives an application everything it needs on the server side without hiding the database behind a proprietary abstraction. The primitive is plain Postgres, and the platform layers authentication, generated APIs, storage, realtime subscriptions, and edge functions on top of it.

That choice matters when a project grows. Row level security policies are ordinary Postgres policies, migrations are ordinary SQL, and an eventual move to self-hosting or to a different provider is a database migration rather than a rewrite.

Decisive facts

  • Auto-generated REST and GraphQL APIs over your schema
  • Authentication with social providers, magic links, and row level security
  • Realtime subscriptions driven by Postgres replication
  • Object storage with policy-based access control
  • Vector columns for retrieval workloads via pgvector
Backend PlatformsDeveloper Toolsself-hostedpostgrestypescriptbaasrealtime

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Firebase

Google's application backend for mobile and web

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