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Airtable vs GitLab Pages

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Overview

Airtable
Airtable
Stacks1.0K
Followers890
Votes40
GitLab Pages
GitLab Pages
Stacks246
Followers295
Votes11

Airtable vs GitLab Pages: What are the differences?

Airtable: *Real-time spreadsheet-database hybrid *. Working with Airtable is as fast and easy as editing a spreadsheet. But only Airtable is backed by the power of a full database, giving you rich features far beyond what a spreadsheet can offer; GitLab Pages: Create websites for your GitLab projects, groups, or user account. Host your static websites on GitLab.com for free, or on your own GitLab Enterprise Edition instance. Use any static website generator: Jekyll, Middleman, Hexo, Hugo, Pelican, and more.

Airtable and GitLab Pages are primarily classified as "Spreadsheets as a Backend" and "Static Web Hosting" tools respectively.

According to the StackShare community, Airtable has a broader approval, being mentioned in 40 company stacks & 20 developers stacks; compared to GitLab Pages, which is listed in 15 company stacks and 22 developer stacks.

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DetStartups
DetStartups

Nov 11, 2019

Needs advice

I'm trying to set up an ideally "no- code" way to have a backend of 3 different tables and be able to find a value in table #3 (contains businesses & cities) by first finding a record in table #1 (7,000+ zip codes) that corresponds to a city (table #2 has the unique cities), and then finding which businesses are located in these cities ( in this specific, original zipcode lookup). And return the business and a description via an API to a front-end results page, which happens to be a WordPress page - but doesn't need to be. I've tried Airtable's API, AirPress (a finicky WordPress plugin for Airtable's API), and I've looked at Sheetsu and a similar spreadsheet as backend and a simple API. I run into the issue where they work fine when you just need to query 1 table, but when you need to use the result from that query in another query to a different table. I'm back in SQL land - where sure it could be done with SQLite - needing to probably create an intersection table or a JOIN and build an API off of that. Is there a way to accomplish what I want without going back to SQL queries and some API?

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Detailed Comparison

Airtable
Airtable
GitLab Pages
GitLab Pages

Working with Airtable is as fast and easy as editing a spreadsheet. But only Airtable is backed by the power of a full database, giving you rich features far beyond what a spreadsheet can offer.

Host your static websites on GitLab.com for free, or on your own GitLab Enterprise Edition instance. Use any static website generator: Jekyll, Middleman, Hexo, Hugo, Pelican, and more

Attachments;Link Tables;Fully mobile;Instant collaboration;Easily undo mistakes
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Statistics
Stacks
1.0K
Stacks
246
Followers
890
Followers
295
Votes
40
Votes
11
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 19
    Powerful and easy to use
  • 8
    Robust and dynamic
  • 6
    Quick UI Layer
  • 4
    Practical built in views
  • 3
    Robust API documentation
Pros
  • 5
    Free
  • 4
    Integrated build and release pipeline
  • 2
    Allows any custom build scripts and plugins
Cons
  • 1
    Require Jekyll approach
  • 0
    Slow builds
Integrations
No integrations available
GitLab
GitLab
Jekyll
Jekyll
Hugo
Hugo
Middleman
Middleman
Hexo
Hexo
Brunch
Brunch
Octopress
Octopress
Pelican
Pelican

What are some alternatives to Airtable, GitLab Pages?

GitHub Pages

GitHub Pages

Public webpages hosted directly from your GitHub repository. Just edit, push, and your changes are live.

DomainRacer

DomainRacer

It is a blazing fast hosting solution that provides Customer Satisfaction driven Web Hosting services since 2016.

Netlify

Netlify

Netlify is smart enough to process your site and make sure all assets gets optimized and served with perfect caching-headers from a cookie-less domain. We make sure your HTML is served straight from our CDN edge nodes without any round-trip to our backend servers and are the only ones to give you instant cache invalidation when you push a new deploy. Netlify is also the only static hosting service with integrated continuous deployment.

Vercel

Vercel

A cloud platform for serverless deployment. It enables developers to host websites and web services that deploy instantly, scale automatically, and require no supervision, all with minimal configuration.

Surge

Surge

Surge makes it easy for developers to deploy projects to a production-quality CDN through Grunt, Gulp, npm.

Webflow

Webflow

Webflow is a responsive design tool that lets you design, build, and publish websites in an intuitive interface. Clean code included!

Divshot

Divshot

Divshot makes building and hosting front-end web applications simple. Build locally and deploy using a simple command-line interface. Divshot supports multiple environments, pushState routing, atomic deploys, and more.

Firebase Hosting

Firebase Hosting

It is production-grade web content hosting for developers. With a single command, you can quickly deploy web apps and serve both static and dynamic content to a global CDN (content delivery network). You can also pair it with Cloud Functions or Cloud Run to build and host microservices.

Sheetsu

Sheetsu

Use spreadsheet as your database. Give data to your users the nice way, directly from the tool you know. Without bothering webdeveloper.

Runkod

Runkod

It provides decentralized hosting platform and management tools for modern javascript applications and static web publishing.

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