Supabase is the open-source Firebase alternative providing a dedicated PostgreSQL database, authentication, real-time subscriptions, and auto-generated APIs. Developers praise the freedom from vendor lock-in, while noting friction with connection pooling and storage edge cases.
Developers constantly share relief over having full SQL queries, relational joins, and pgvector.
Teams love writing security rules directly in Postgres instead of bespoke backend middleware.
Serverless developers frequently hit connection exhaustion before properly enabling Supavisor/pooler.
Replaced 8 separate microservices and a complex Firebase Firestore setup with @supabase. Built our entire multi-tenant auth + billing + vector search in 4 days. Full Postgres power with no DevOps headache.
Has anyone hit connection pool timeouts on Supabase when scaling serverless Cloudflare Workers? Need advice on whether to switch to direct session mode or spin up Neon / dedicated RDS.
Looking for a self-hostable Firebase alternative with rock-solid auth and storage. Supabase is top of list, but how painful is self-hosting via Docker Compose in production compared to managed?