YaraDB
Lightweight open-source document database built with FastAPI
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HN · launched Nov 12, 2025 · 10 upvotes (top 48%) · 0 views
Niche: database management systems and engines · 162 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -25% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Data infrastructure
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes A lightweight document store wrapped with FastAPI endpoints and backed by JSON files or SQLite is a standard CRUD project an AI coding assistant can generate in hours.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: MongoDB, Firebase, SQLite, CouchDB
Concerns raised: Single JSON file storage scalability limits, No indexing support yet, Replication not yet implemented, Performance with large datasets unclear
Feature requests: Indexing support, Replication capabilities, Query language beyond key-value search, Horizontal scaling mechanism
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 2198 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1089 of 2199 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 13 days after the earliest competitor.
- database · github · 2026-09-17 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- memo-book-productivity-tool · github · 2026-11-10 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Epstein Graph · hn · 2026-02-10 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- ExtractBench, an open-source schema extraction benchmark · hn · 2026-08-11 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- PhantomCollect · hn · 2025-11-11 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- kividb · github · 2026-10-16 · 316 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- memo-book-desktop · github · 2026-11-10 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- noema · github · 2026-10-17 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.57
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