10 alternatives to neon

neondatabase/neon — Neon: Serverless Postgres. We separated storage and compute to offer autoscaling, code-like database branching, and scale to zero. (23,257 stars, Apache-2.0, database, auth, integration).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 756 licence-cleared components from neondatabase/neon itself.

The alternatives in detail

• brianc/node-postgres
  PostgreSQL client for node.js.
  score 8.0/10 · MIT permissive · 13,228 stars · 42 components · search them
• dbcli/pgcli
  Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting
  score 7.2/10 · BSD-3-Clause permissive · 13,428 stars · 24 components · search them
• electric-sql/pglite
  Embeddable Postgres with real-time, reactive bindings.
  score 7.0/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 16,191 stars · 120 components · search them
• drizzle-team/drizzle-orm
  ORM
  score 7.5/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 36,140 stars · 623 components · search them · alternatives
• niledatabase/niledatabase
  PostgreSQL reengineered for multi-tenant apps
  score 4.5/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 1,083 stars · 131 components · search them
• timescale/timescaledb
  A time-series database for high-performance real-time analytics packaged as a Postgres extension
  score 6.1/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 23,734 stars · 594 components · search them · alternatives
• zzzprojects/sqlfiddle3
  New version based on vert.x and docker
  score 4.4/10 · MIT permissive · 340 stars · 40 components · search them
• transact-rs/sqlx
  🧰 The Rust SQL Toolkit. An async, pure Rust SQL crate featuring compile-time checked queries without a DSL. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite.
  score 8.2/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 17,596 stars · 344 components · search them
• bagashiz/go-pos
  Simple RESTful Point of Sale (POS) Service API written in Go using Gin web framework, PostgreSQL database, and Redis cache. Proof of concept of implementing Hexagonal Architecture in Go.
  score 7.8/10 · MIT permissive · 353 stars · 53 components · search them
• vgarvardt/gue
  Golang queue on top of PostgreSQL
  score 4.7/10 · MIT permissive · 315 stars · 14 components · search them

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