What is PGlite?
It is a WASM Postgres build packaged into a TypeScript client library that enables you to run Postgres in the browser, Node.js, and Bun, with no need to install any other dependencies. It is only 3.7mb gzipped.
PGlite is a tool in the Database Tools category of a tech stack.
PGlite is an open source tool with 10.3K GitHub stars and 228 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to PGlite's open source repository on GitHub
PGlite Integrations
PGlite's Features
- WASM build of Postrges
- Run Postgres in the browser
- Can be used as an ephemeral in-memory database
- It's only 3.7mb gzipped
PGlite Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to PGlite?
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.
Amazon S3
Amazon Simple Storage Service provides a fully redundant data storage infrastructure for storing and retrieving any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web
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