Actionbase
A database for likes, views, follows at 1M+ req/min
Details
- External ID
- 46778273
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Actionbase
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Jan. 27, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.41699604743083
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- alternative social platforms and feed readers
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Data infrastructure
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- high-throughput database for social metrics
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Designing and building a distributed high-throughput counter/graph database capable of sustaining 1M+ requests per minute requires specialized distributed systems engineering.
What it would actually take: The database needs an in-memory or LSM-tree storage engine written in Rust or C++, optimized for atomic increments and write-heavy set membership operations (HyperLogLog, Bloom filters, bitsets). Hard requirements include lock-free data structures, Raft/Paxos consensus or CRDT-based replication for clustering, and high-performance network I/O (e.g., io_uring, epoll), demanding veteran systems programming expertise.
Discussion
5 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: ScyllaDB, Kafka + KV store + Redis, MySQL with Kafka and Redis, SlateDB
Concerns raised: Over-engineered compared to simpler solutions, Eventual consistency trade-offs, SlateDB needs dev effort vs HBase battle-tested in production
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 211 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #122 of 212 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 81 days after the earliest competitor.
- Epstein Graph · hn · 2026-02-10 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- DreamX-Rec · github · 2026-09-17 · 121 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- IMDB-Recommender-System · github · 2026-09-22 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- HeronLoom · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- layaForWeb · github · 2026-09-21 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- truffler · github · 2026-09-25 · 50 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- GapQuery · hn · 2026-07-23 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- AdaptiveRAG-Robustness · github · 2026-09-16 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.42
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a data infrastructure tool for Media & entertainment yet.