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briven against the field.
honest comparisons against the platforms briven is most often weighed against. every row is a real difference you can check yourself — not a checkbox invented to favour us. where the other platform wins, we say so plainly. where briven has since caught up, we say that too.
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neon
serverless postgres — the closest product
the closest comparison. both are serverless postgres you can create in seconds. they are larger and win console, time travel, end-user auth and ha. briven is postgres 18 with pgvector already on, and sql over http through @briven/serverless.
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supabase
postgres with postgrest and row-level security in front
both are real postgres. the split is what sits in front of it: supabase gives you a rest api and row-level security, briven gives you a pooled postgres connection and the same sql over plain http.
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convex
reactive queries on a proprietary engine
convex's reactive queries are genuinely good and briven does not have them: briven pushes row changes as they happen, but it will not recompute a query for you. what briven has instead is postgres 18 you can point psql at, and pg_dump as the way out.
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firebase
document store with client-evaluated security rules
firebase is nosql with realtime listeners and offline sync built in. briven pushes changes as they happen too, but has nothing for a client that is offline — and it is relational: joins, transactions, and a bill that is four flat plans rather than a count of reads and writes.
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