Cloud Hosted Databases DBaaS

I am creating a post to list all cloud-hosted alternatives to Firestore. All of these databases are scalable and serverless technologies.

1. Cloud Firestore

NoSQL Database built on Firebase platform

Amazing support for many different libraries

Incredible Default Realtime Support with Robust Caching

Wonderful Robust Security Rules for Backend Validation written in CEL (Common Expression Langauge)

Very Limited Querying

No support for any type of joins

Must handle all types of counts manually

Vendor Lockin, can't use outside of Firestore

Firestore Functions can do a lot in background

See here for my in-depth problems with Firestore (love/hate)

Price: Pricing based on usage

2. Dgraph Cloud

Graph Database using GraphQL known to be faster than Neo4j based on Badger.

Extremely Fast and Powerful

Has realtime support through graphql websockets.

Very Limited Backend Validation Security (Hopefully they are working on this), but can hack this with Custom Lambda Mutations (a lot more work) written in GraphQL Queries

No Nested Filters (same thing as filtering JOINS), should have this by end of the year, can hack with custom DQL queries

Has Data Studio like Cloud Firestore

Can Edit almost everything in Cloud Studio

Use my easy-dgraph js library for easily creating graphql queries

Best used with URQL for Caching

Will have storage usage in the future like Firebase

Must use external Auth Controls like Firebase Auth or Auth0

Price: $39.99 a month, or dedicated based on usage ($199)

3. Supabase.io

PostgresSQL using a JS Library with an online easy-to-use system.

JS Library makes any kind of queries easy to create, especially complex joins and filters

Uses Postgres's RLS (Row Level Security) policies for very robust backend validation

Has current storage bucket capabilities like Firebase

Has built-in Auth controls

Price: $25 a month, or dedicated based on usage

4. Hasura Cloud

GraphQL postgreSQL database

RLS for security

Needs Auth0 or Firebase for authentication

NHost.io built on top of this

Price: $99 a month standard to custom

5. Nhost.io

PostGreSQL with GraphQL built on Hasura

Adds storage and RBAC to Hasura.

6. MongoDb Atlas

GraphQL connection to feature rich noSQL.

Has Robust Join Capabilities for a denormalized database, but can be slow if not indexed

Many Languages Support, Functions, Triggers

Streams for Realtime Support via Websockets

Has a GraphQL api

JSON Schema Validation and built in RBAC

Price: $57 a month dedicated instance

7. Fauna

GraphQL connection for custom relational noSQL.

Realtime available using streams, limited

Built in ABAC, Custom FQL Rules for Robust Security Validation

Vendor Lock-in, can't view under-the-hood

Price: $22.5 a month, $135, $450, depending on needs

8. Neo4j Aura

GraphDb, basic graphQL, uses Cypher Language for everything else

Cypher includes RBAC and Robust Query Validation

Realtime support with external instance of Kafka (from my understanding), not built-in

Limited Documentation

GraphQL does not work out-of-the-box and needs a middlware server

Price: $65 a month to custom

9. Amazon Neptune

GraphDb, gremlin and SPARQL (latest technology!)

AWS (IAM) for ABAC Security

Lambda Functions (Java, Javascript, and other langauges) - Field Validation as well

Gremlin Websocket for Realtime

Limited Documentation

Easy access to all Amazon Services

Price: Custom pricing, probably starts at $450 a month

10. MariaDB Cloud / SkyDB

A Fork of MySQL management

Built-in User Management

MYSQL Validation Data Rules

Realtime Data Streams with Kafka (not built-in to my understanding)

Storage Options

Price: Custom Pricing, pay as you go, maybe $700 starting?

11. TigerGraph Cloud

GraphDB Restful Endpoint

Restful Endpoint

RBAC Built-in

GSQL Query Langauge for Security Field Validation

Kafka for real time streaming

Price: Pay as you go, dedicated, could get expensive, free version with credits

12. Nebula Graph

Chinese GraphDb with recent funding

RBAC

nGQL, openCypher for Security and Queries

Kafka or Pulsar

Nebula Graph Cloud in Beta

13. Redis Enterprise Cloud

Key Value Store that can be used as GraphDB

Rest API

RBAC

Pubsub

Price:Free Version, $7, and Flexible add GraphDB

14. HarperDB Cloud

SQL on JSON with Rest API

NewSQL, Microservice Architecture

Authentication Security (JWT and Roles), no field security that I can find

Pubsub websockets

Price: Free tier, per instance pricing

15. CockroachCloud

SQL on JSON

NewSQL, allows complex querying

Uses Changefeed to watch data

Price:: No Free tier, by the hour

16. Couchbase Cloud

newSQL noSQL allowing relational data

Spark Streaming, DStreams from DCP

Price: per hour, custom pricing

17. InfiniteGraph

GraphDB, claims massive scalability

Looks like GraphQL, probably websockets, documentation not available to free users?

Price: - Free version , $100 50gb

18. SingleStore

Elastic Cloud Database Relational SQL

Could not find specifics, has streaming capabilities

Price: - Credit system, free version gives $500 worth of credits

19. PlanetScale

Mysql compatible powered by Vitess

In beta, could not find real time data information or client side integration

Price: - low pricing for startups, cost per read / writes / storage

20. AstraDB

Apache Cassandra NoSQL database

DataStax Astra Streaming Technology

Price: - has free tear, price per usage

Honorable Mentions (No Cloud Service or Enterprise Only Cloud)

RethinkDB - JSON with joins, specialize in realtime data

Appwrite.io - noSQL, storage, rest api

GraphDB - Ontotext - RDF Db

Stardog - RDF GraphDB, has custom cloud version, but no free version

Apache Jena - RDF Triple Store

Let me know pros and cons of any you have used.

I will update the list if new features become available, so let me know.

Post a comment if you know of another cloud-hosted product (must be serverless), and I will add it here as well.

J