Data infrastructure worth watching
Databases and data tooling on the radar, most upvoted first.
Data infrastructure is the slowest thing to adopt and the most painful to reverse, which makes the year before you need it the only comfortable time to read about it. Nothing on this list is a recommendation; it is what exists, in the order people here have upvoted it.
12 tools
Vectoree
LaunchedA backend for coding agents: model gateway, auth, Postgres and storage behind one project key.
All in Term
LaunchedA terminal app for Mac and Windows with SSH, SFTP, database, Docker and Nginx tools in one workspace.
Tabularis
LaunchedOpen-source SQL workspace for desktop and web
CSVJetty
LaunchedCSV imports for React with column mapping, validation, and inline corrections
Upstash
LaunchedServerless Redis, vector search and message queues with HTTP APIs.
Convex
LaunchedA reactive backend where queries, mutations and schemas are written in TypeScript.
Prisma
LaunchedA TypeScript ORM with a declarative schema, migrations and a type-safe query client.
Typebase
LaunchedA backend in one folder of TypeScript: database, server functions, auth and file storage.
Kedge
LaunchedA cloud platform that deploys websites, apps and databases to a public HTTPS URL over SSH or Git.
Turso
LaunchedSQLite for production: a distributed database built on libSQL with embedded replicas.
Neon
LaunchedServerless Postgres that scales to zero, with instant database branching.
Supabase
LaunchedAn open-source backend built on Postgres: database, auth, storage, realtime and edge functions.
Everything here also sits in the Databases category, which covers what to look for before you commit to one.