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Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on all your data with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events.

98 mentions on Hacker News by 42 people: 29 stories, 69 comments · first 2018-07-16 · latest 2026-04-09

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  1. …generate data catalogs + metadata layer from DB's + API's so the foundational infra was there [0] https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine
    comment by gavinray · 2026-04-09 · in One Brain to Query: Wiring a 60-Person Company into a Single Slack Bot
  2. Yes, it is open source, and Docker containers are freely accessible too https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine https://hub.docker.com/r/hasura/graphql-engine I run v2.x images myself, not sure what v3 and DDN are, besides monetization…
    comment by nawgz · 2025-10-15 · in Why Is Python So Popular in 2025?
  3. …https://github.com/keystonejs/keystone https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine https://github.com/manticoresoftware/manticoresearch/ https://github.com/coder/code-server https://github.com/loft-sh
    comment by yencabulator · 2024-05-29 · in Mobifree – An open-source mobile ecosystem
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    Ask HN: How Can I Make My Front End React to Database Changes in Real-Time?
    story by bruchim · 2024-04-17 · 54 comments
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    Hasura V3 Engine is in alpha
    story by tristenharr · 2023-12-20 · 0 comments
  6. > We are 100% open source I mean, so is Hasura. https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine (Disclaimer: Work at Hasura)
    comment by gavinray · 2023-08-28 · in Show HN: Graphweaver – Instant GraphQL API on Postgres, MySQL, SQLite and More
  7. https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch https://github.com/nestjs/nest
    comment by robertwt7 · 2023-01-01 · in Ask HN: What are the best open source TypeScript projects I can learn from?
  8. Hasura ( https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine ) is quite big project. Although it should be less than 100K LOC. It was only once when I saw problem that could be considered a bug.
    comment by Ingaz · 2022-12-11 · in Haskell, Ada, C++, Awk: An Experiment in Prototyping Productivity (1994) [pdf]
  9. …- https://morpheusgraphql.com/ - https://higherkindness.io/mu-haskell/ - https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine - https://postgrest.org/en/stable/ - https://www.shellcheck.net/ - https://dhall-lang.org/ - https://haskell-miso.org
    comment by ghostwriter · 2022-11-11 · in School of Haskell: Basics (2013)
  10. …tools? Or is it more of an academic language? I was surprised to see it on the GitHub repo. [0]: https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine
    comment by nawgz · 2022-11-03 · in 2022 State of Haskell Survey
  11. …https://supabase.com/docs/guides/realtime Hasura Streaming Subscriptions / Live Queries https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/blob/master/archite... https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/blob/master/archite...
    comment by Dystopian · 2022-10-17 · in Streaming data in Postgres to 1M clients with GraphQL
  12. It is given here: https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/blob/master/archite...
    comment by tirumaraiselvan · 2022-10-17 · in Streaming data in Postgres to 1M clients with GraphQL
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    Streaming data in Postgres to 1M clients with GraphQL
    story by tango12 · 2022-10-16 · 73 comments
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    Show HN: Instant streaming GraphQL APIs with built-in authorization for Postgres
    story by praveenweb · 2022-10-13 · 0 comments
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    Show HN: Instant streaming GraphQL APIs with built-in authorization for Postgres
    story by praveenweb · 2022-10-10 · 0 comments
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    GraphQL streaming API with built-in authorization for Postgres
    story by tango12 · 2022-10-03 · 0 comments
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    Show HN: Instant streaming GraphQL APIs with built-in authorization for Postgres
    story by wawhal · 2022-09-30 · 1 comment
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    Show HN: Instant streaming GraphQL APIs with built-in authorization for Postgres
    story by tango12 · 2022-09-29 · 0 comments
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    Instant streaming APIs with built-in authorization for new or existing Postgres
    story by wawhal · 2022-09-06 · 0 comments
  20. …image). So we compile that from source. They do at least provide comprehensive instructions ( https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/blob/master/server/... ), and I didn't have too much trouble even though I'd never used Haskell before.…
    comment by nicoburns · 2022-06-12 · in Ask HN: How are you dealing with the M1/ARM migration?
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    Hasura v2.1.0 – Transform Any HTTP REST API to GraphQL
    story by praveenweb · 2021-12-22 · 0 comments
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    Hasura GraphQL Engine v2.1.0 – Transform Any HTTP REST API to GraphQL
    story by praveenweb · 2021-12-15 · 0 comments
  23. It's a VERY fragile support: https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/issues/6648 Basically, if two entities in the databases have the same names, Hasura fails unless you manually define a unique `custom_name` for each such entity. Given…
    comment by piaste · 2021-12-03 · in Pg_GraphQL: A GraphQL Extension for PostgreSQL
  24. …some of Hasura's use-cases, but that's a proprietary extension not present in base PostgreSQL. [0]: https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/issues/678 [1]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/28296 [2]:…
    comment by infogulch · 2021-10-27 · in How we built a serverless SQL database
  25. …to a specific SQL dialect. I'm wondering if any of this would carry over to a usecase like that? https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/blob/master/server/src-lib/Hasura/RQL/IR/Select.hs https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/blob/maste…
    comment by gavinray · 2021-09-16 · in Copy-and-Patch: Fast JIT Compilation for SQL, WebAssembly, and Others
  26. Hasura discusses why they chose polling here ( https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/blob/master/archite... ). > WAL: Reliable stream, but LR slots are expensive which makes horizontal scaling hard, and are often not available on…
    comment by vaughan · 2021-09-06 · in Ask HN: What could a modern database do that PostgreSQL and MySQL can't
  27. …evaluated Postgres' listen/notify feature to power their subscriptions, but chose polling instead: https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/blob/master/archite... > Listen/Notify: Requires instrumenting all tables with triggers, events…
    comment by spiffytech · 2021-09-05 · in Ask HN: What could a modern database do that PostgreSQL and MySQL can't
  28. …spit out JSON. @gavinray put together an amazing typescript SDK to write all the metadata in code: https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/tree/master/contrib...
    comment by tango12 · 2021-06-23 · in Hasura GraphQL Engine 2.0
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    Hasura GraphQL Engine 2.0
    story by stevefan1999 · 2021-06-23 · 47 comments
  30. …it. I'm hoping the answer isn't "just use int PKs", but it'd be helpful to know if it is. [0] -- https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/issues/3578
    comment by nirvdrum · 2021-06-18 · in Hasura GraphQL Engine and SQL Server
  31. Both these projects support Postgres, have open source cores, and feature 'pro' options. https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/ https://www.graphile.org/postgraphile/pricing/ https://hasura.io/pricing/ (see: self-hosted)…
    comment by scoopertrooper · 2021-06-18 · in Hasura GraphQL Engine and SQL Server
  32. …and here's the new spec we're implementing that will support all databases and remote schemas too. https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/issues/6991 General support for inherited roles is one of the things I'm most excited about because…
    comment by tango12 · 2021-06-18 · in Hasura GraphQL Engine and SQL Server
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    Hasura GraphQL Engine and SQL Server
    story by tango12 · 2021-06-18 · 83 comments
  34. …but there's only so many battles to pick and sometimes that decision is out of your control. [1] -- https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/issues/3578
    comment by nirvdrum · 2021-05-31 · in UUID, serial or identity columns for PostgreSQL auto-generated primary keys?
  35. …So I end up using ! a lot because I know the field is non null in Postgres. It’s a unfortunate. [0] https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/issues/1965
    comment by dmitryminkovsky · 2021-04-26 · in Java for Everything (2014)
  36. …to watch DB writes, and map DML statements to query subs...but pointless in a batch setting. [1]: https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/blob/master/archite...
    comment by vaughan · 2021-04-23 · in Ask HN: Is there a way to efficiently subscribe to an SQL query for changes?
  37. …and have a few small projects in production that takes an approach similar to [this talk][1]. From https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/blob/master/archite... Do you have/know of any findings/lessons learned from these projects? [1]:…
    comment by vaughan · 2021-04-22 · in Ask HN: Is there a way to efficiently subscribe to an SQL query for changes?
  38. …on PG and keep adding query abilities, performance, etc, instead of expanding database engines. [0] https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/issues/5745
    comment by nwienert · 2021-04-22 · in Prisma – ORM for Node.js and TypeScript
  39. …ideas though, and REST to GraphQL interop was something people really wanted! Here’s the spec: https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/blob/master/rfcs/re...
    comment by tango12 · 2021-02-25 · in Hasura GraphQL Engine 2.0
  40. …in one of the "Postgres-backend" projects like Hasura[1], Postgraphile[2], or PostgREST[3]. [1]: https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/ [2]: https://www.graphile.org/postgraphile/ [3]: https://postgrest.org
    comment by statenjason · 2021-02-25 · in RFC6238 TOTP implementation in pure PostgreSQL
  41. …despite having to compete with SAP. See also: https://github.com/collections/made-in-india [0] https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine [1] https://github.com/postmanlabs/newman [2] https://github.com/frappe/erpnext
    comment by ignoramous · 2021-01-12 · in The State of FOSS in India
  42. …My favorite SQL implementation of cursor-based keyset pagination can be found on this Hasura issue: https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/issues/141 , specifically this comment: https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/issues/141#issueco…
    comment by dmitryminkovsky · 2020-12-27 · in API pagination design
  43. …like "all results where date created is greater than $X". For SQL implementations, check out: https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/issues/141#issuecom... or https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38017054/mysql-cursor-ba...
    comment by dmitryminkovsky · 2020-12-27 · in API pagination design
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  45. Hasura isn't proprietary though? It's OSS software, code lives on the GH repo: https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine
    comment by gavinray · 2020-11-22 · in PostgREST: REST API for any Postgres database
  46. …data for each subscription. If the data changes it passes down the result to the graphql client. https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/blob/master/archite...
    comment by snorremd · 2020-10-29 · in Show HN: Nhost – Open source Firebase alternative with GraphQL
  47. …too low to say for sure yet, but the hasura docs seems to indicate that it could be quite scalable: https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/blob/master/archite...
    comment by lpellis · 2020-07-08 · in A REST View of GraphQL
  48. …up with this, but I don't know who did! I'm sure it's already better articulated somewhere.) [1] https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine
    comment by tango12 · 2020-06-11 · in A tech stack should be a well-balanced portfolio
  49. …integrate with Firebase. Anyway, my point is that this is best of both worlds, so great to see! [0] https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine [1] https://www.metabase.com/
    comment by fragosti · 2020-05-28 · in Supabase (YC S20) – An open source Firebase alternative
  50. …and tradeoffs of WAL, Triggers, and the decided implementation (interval-based polling) are given: https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/blob/master/archite... "We experimented with several methods of capturing events from the…
    comment by gavinray · 2020-05-27 · in Supabase (YC S20) – An open source Firebase alternative