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Poor Man's Back End-as-a-Service (BaaS), Similar to Firebase/Supabase/Pocketbase

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200 points dcu | 1 comments | 03 Jul 25 15:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.244s | source
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CharlesW ◴[03 Jul 25 17:03 UTC] No.44457094[source]▶
Pocketbase is already the poor man's BaaS, and is minimalist compared to the two others mentioned.

> Data stored in human-readable CSVs

The choice to not use a database when two near-perfect tiny candidates exist, and furthermore to choose the notorious CSV format for storing data, is absolutely mystifying. One can use their Wasm builds if platform-specific binaries offend.

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zffr ◴[03 Jul 25 17:41 UTC] No.44457440[source]▶
What’s the other candidate besides pocketbase?
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CharlesW ◴[03 Jul 25 18:33 UTC] No.44457932[source]▶
Apologies to anyone who found this unclear — the two near-perfect tiny candidate databases are SQLite and DuckDB.
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1. fmbb ◴[04 Jul 25 10:52 UTC] No.44463359[source]▶
The data files are not human readable though, right?