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Supabase

Supabase is the Postgres development platform. We're building the features of Firebase using enterprise-grade open source tools.

- [x] Hosted Postgres Database. Docs
- [x] Authentication and Authorization. Docs
- [x] Auto-generated APIs.
  - [x] REST. Docs
  - [x] GraphQL. Docs
  - [x] Realtime subscriptions. Docs
- [x] Functions.
  - [x] Database Functions. Docs
  - [x] Edge Functions. Docs
- [x] File Storage. Docs
- [x] AI + Vector/Embeddings Toolkit. Docs
- [x] Dashboard.

!Supabase Dashboard

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 Documentation

For full documentation, visit supabase.com/docs

To see how to Contribute, visit Getting Started

 Community & Support

- Community Forum. Best for: help with building, discussion about database best practices.
- GitHub Issues. Best for: bugs and errors you encounter using Supabase.
- Email Support. Best for: problems with your database or infrastructure.
- Discord. Best for: sharing your applications and hanging out with the community.

 How it works

Supabase is a combination of open source tools. We’re building the features of Firebase using enterprise-grade, open source products. If the tools and communities exist, with an MIT, Apache 2, or equivalent open license, we will use and support that tool. If the tool doesn't exist, we build and open source it ourselves. Supabase is not a 1-to-1 mapping of Firebase. Our aim is to give developers a Firebase-like developer experience using open source tools.

Architecture

Supabase is a hosted platform. You can sign up and start using Supabase without installing anything.
You can also self-host and develop locally.

!Architecture

- Postgres is an object-relational database system with over 30 years of active development that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, feature robustness, and performance.
- Realtime is an Elixir server that allows you to listen to PostgreSQL inserts, updates, and deletes using websockets. Realtime polls Postgres' built-in replication functionality for database changes, converts changes to JSON, then broadcasts the JSON over websockets to authorized clients.
- PostgREST is a web server that turns your PostgreSQL database directly into a RESTful API.
- GoTrue is a JWT-based authentication API that simplifies user sign-ups, logins, and session management in your applications.
- Storage is a RESTful API for managing files in S3, with Postgres handling permissions.
- pg_graphql is a PostgreSQL extension that exposes a GraphQL API.
- postgres-meta is a RESTful API for managing your Postgres, allowing you to fetch tables, add roles, and run queries, etc.
- Envoy is a cloud-native, high-performance edge and service proxy.

 Client libraries

Our approach for client libraries is modular. Each sub-library is a standalone implementation for a single external system. This is one of the ways we support existing tools.


  
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    Feature-Clients (bundled in Supabase cl

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Latest release

Here’s everything that happened with Supabase in the last month:

 Supabase Select SF 2026



Supabase Select returns to San Francisco on October 2, a curated day of talks, feature deep dives, and more activations. Tickets are now available by application.

Get your ticket →

 Supabase Pipelines is now in public alpha



Supabase Pipelines streams Postgres changes to BigQuery in near real time, a managed CDC service you configure in the Dashboard, now available on all paid plans.

Read the blog →

 Sign in with ChatGPT is now in beta

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