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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, rather than leaving an old “not yet” standing in the table.
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supabase
postgres with postgrest and row-level security in front
the closest comparison, because 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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