There’s plenty of competition in the market for relational database platforms — from Aurora, Alloy DB, Supabase, PlanetScale, CockroachDB, ZomboDB, Heroku Postgres and Yugabyte, among others.

Relational optimization has saved countless hours of work and, as long as we use it properly and code our applications with knowledge of what optimization can do, the RDBMS can be used for a wide ...

Supabase develops an open-source relational database of the same name. It’s positioned as an alternative to Google LLC’s Firebase database, which is designed to power web and mobile apps.

Tables are grids, similar to spreadsheets that have rows, columns, and headers. In dealing with a relational database, everything is a grid. Obviously, tables are grids, views are grids, and the ...