What is PostgREST?
PostgREST serves a fully RESTful API from any existing PostgreSQL database. It provides a cleaner, more standards-compliant, faster API than you are likely to write from scratch.
PostgREST is a tool in the Database Tools category of a tech stack.
PostgREST is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to PostgREST's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses PostgREST?
Companies
7 companies reportedly use PostgREST in their tech stacks, including AmperVue, Postila, and Fyle Technologies Private Limited.
Developers
53 developers on StackShare have stated that they use PostgREST.
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PostgREST Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to PostgREST?
GraphQL
GraphQL is a data query language and runtime designed and used at Facebook to request and deliver data to mobile and web apps since 2012.
MySQL
The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.
MongoDB
MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.
Redis
Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.
