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Undb – Private first, unified, self-hosted no code database

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Re: Undb – Private first, unified, self-hosted no code database

#31

Any performance numbers? For instance how might this handle 1M+ records, 15+ columns in a single table?

If you're looking for a performant no-code database, you might want to try Baserow. It's made to scale, and can handle 1M+ rows with 15+ fields. More information about this topic can be found in our 1.17 release blog post here https://baserow.io/blog/1-17-release-of-baserow. Disclaimer: I'm the founder of Baserow.

Re: Undb – Private first, unified, self-hosted no code database

#35

This is pretty cool! I'm not sure what I would use it for, but it seems like it's definitely useful. I've been in the midst of developing my own frontend (SPA/PWA) data storage solution, using IndexedDB (and the Dexie library), so I've been watching all of the recent announcements about the wasm-sqlite implementations and wondering if I should probably just switch over to that. If, for nothing else, for the exportabl…

I like your idea!

Re: Undb – Private first, unified, self-hosted no code database

#36
post #15

I love the idea of an Airtable/Notion open source alternative, but I haven't seen any projects yet that look like a solid long-term bet. NocoDB is neat, but looks like it's a single vendor-driven project that could go open core or die altogether if funding dries up. Baserow also looks good, but already appears to be open core and another single-vendor project. Undb might be a more community driven project over time.…

The thing about open core is that the non-core parts are usually the ones bringing money home to pay for the development of the core. So most times the alternative wouldn't be a fully open source project, but probably a nonexistent one.

Re: Undb – Private first, unified, self-hosted no code database

#37

It's funny how people put funny names on the concept of a spreadsheet nowadays

When I was playing an economics game I was building a lot of simple nocode Google spreadsheets with a little bit of JavaScript to import data. You could share your spreadsheets among friends and everyone made their own copy which they modified to suit their own needs.

I thought about some very trivial apps that are worth building but not worth the cost of the usual stacks. We are talking about the equivalent of a simple desktop app that doesn't need hosting except you don't want to use the local filesystem because you want to synchronize your data between devices. The actual app could be a simple SPA. It doesn't matter how it is implemented. What I am missing is the storage concept. There is remoteStorage.js but nobody adopted it.

Re: Undb – Private first, unified, self-hosted no code database

#38
post #25

I've been looking at and trying the class of easy to host, api-fied db/table frontend tools for a while. Clicking around your demo the sought-after functionality is there and the roadmap looks promising, good job! Some ui-breakpoints for a mobile view on tables are missing and not yet catalogued in the issue tracker. Use-case: string searching a table on the go.

Will fix the issues!

Re: Undb – Private first, unified, self-hosted no code database

#40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GP didn't ask about references. They asked what the tool actually was, and asked about the types of guarantees it provides compared to a known RDBMS.

I got it. And in my opinion the most value undb provide is to handle the reference part which you always have to impl in code when you use traditional RDBMS. Also it provides typed api, real-time sub and user friendly views

By “reference” you mean like foreign key reference? Joins?
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