ElectricSQL
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“I think the programming interface electric presents is very compelling”
“I've heard good things about it”
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“You can use http://electric-sql.com to sync into PGlite in the browser from postgres.”
“This really helps if they've had large version changes”
“Efforts like Electric SQL to have APIs/protocols for bulk fetching all changes (to a "table") is where it's at.”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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From the makers not counted in the ranking
“if you're self-hosting the Electric sync service, upgrade to version >= 1.5.0 immediately.”
“We've been using the previous iteration of this as the transport part of the electric sync protocol”
“Electric is a devtools startup.”
Threads where it came up
- PGlite – Embeddable Postgres 2 mentions
- Show HN: PicoMQ – Durable Streams over HTTP, on object storage 1 mention
- ElectricSQL database takeover vulnerability found by AI 1 mention
- A Datomic entity browser for prod [video] 1 mention
- Ask HN: What is the most modular sync engine? 1 mention
- SSE sucks for transporting LLM tokens 1 mention
Also written as Electric, Electric SQL. Data: electricsql.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 8
“electric just got acquired so the state of their durable streams project is unknown”
“I think the programming interface electric presents is very compelling”
“It's a wrapper over Electric.”
“I've heard good things about it”
“You can use http://electric-sql.com to sync into PGlite in the browser from postgres.”
“This really helps if they've had large version changes”
“which companies like ElectricSQL have, but no Dart bindings”
“Efforts like Electric SQL to have APIs/protocols for bulk fetching all changes (to a "table") is where it's at.”