Vitess vs Supabase

At a Glance

Vitess

Supabase

Vitess

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Supabase

Vitess

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Supabase

Pros

Postgres under the hood means you can use any standard SQL tool and your existing knowledge transfers directly+187
The free tier is genuinely generous — 500MB database and 2GB storage is enough to validate most SaaS ideas without spending a cent+164

Database

Supabase vs Firebase

Database

Supabase vs Firebase vs PlanetScale

Database

Supabase vs Neon

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Cons

Hitting the connection limit on the free tier (60 connections) will silently fail your app at the worst possible moment under load+178
Self-hosting is technically possible but the documentation is scattered and keeping up with upstream changes is a maintenance burden+112
Edge functions have a cold start delay that makes them unsuitable for latency-sensitive operations without warm-up tricks+98
The dashboard UI has had confusing UX regressions after updates that made simple tasks like inspecting RLS policies harder to find+89
Branching for database preview environments is still immature compared to Neon — you can't easily spin up a branch per PR+74