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Hasura vs PostGraphile: What are the differences?

Developers describe Hasura as "An open source GraphQL engine that deploys instant, realtime GraphQL APIs on any Postgres database". An open source GraphQL engine that deploys instant, realtime GraphQL APIs on any Postgres database. On the other hand, PostGraphile is detailed as "Instant GraphQL API for your PostgreSQL database; use standalone or as a Node.js middleware; MIT-licensed OSS". Execute one command (or mount one Node.js middleware) and get an instant high-performance GraphQL API for your PostgreSQL database.

Hasura belongs to "Platform as a Service" category of the tech stack, while PostGraphile can be primarily classified under "Query Languages".

Some of the features offered by Hasura are:

Stack-agnostic
Cloud-agnostic
Git push to deploy

On the other hand, PostGraphile provides the following key features:

instant GraphQL schema via reflection over PostgreSQL database API
compiles complex GraphQL queries into very few SQL statements resulting in high performance
built entirely from plugins - heavily customisable

PostGraphile is an open source tool with 7.49K GitHub stars and 364 GitHub forks. Here's a link to PostGraphile's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of Hasura

Pros of PostGraphile

20
Fast
15
Easy GraphQL subscriptions
14
Easy setup of relationships and permissions
13
Automatically generates your GraphQL schema
13
Minimal learning curve
12
No back-end code required
11
Works with new and existing databases
10
Great UX
10
Instant production ready GraphQL
3
Simple
2
Low usage of resources

10
Postgres based authentication
6
Great developer support
5
Database first with no braking changes
5
Lightning fast
4
Simple to set up and scale
4
Bye bye Resolvers
2
Instant production ready GraphQL
2
Back to database first
2
Easy setup of relationships and permissions
2
9 Automatically generates your GraphQL schema
1
Works with new and existing databases

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Cons of Hasura

Cons of PostGraphile

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Cumbersome validations

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What is Hasura?

An open source GraphQL engine that deploys instant, realtime GraphQL APIs on any Postgres database.

What is PostGraphile?

Execute one command (or mount one Node.js middleware) and get an instant high-performance GraphQL API for your PostgreSQL database

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What are some alternatives to Hasura and PostGraphile?

Firebase

Firebase is a cloud service designed to power real-time, collaborative applications. Simply add the Firebase library to your application to gain access to a shared data structure; any changes you make to that data are automatically synchronized with the Firebase cloud and with other clients within milliseconds.

Heroku

Heroku is a cloud application platform – a new way of building and deploying web apps. Heroku lets app developers spend 100% of their time on their application code, not managing servers, deployment, ongoing operations, or scaling.

Prisma

Prisma is an open-source database toolkit. It replaces traditional ORMs and makes database access easy with an auto-generated query builder for TypeScript & Node.js.

Apollo

Build a universal GraphQL API on top of your existing REST APIs, so you can ship new application features fast without waiting on backend changes.

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.

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