rdsql
psql for Aurora, over the RDS Data API
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Details
- External ID
- 1270680
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- rdsql
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 3
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9004625937151061
- Tags
- Open Source, Developer Tools, GitHub, Database
- Fetched at
- Oct. 7, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 7, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
rdsql is a psql-style terminal client for Aurora that talks to the RDS Data API over HTTPS. You don't need a VPN, bastion host, or SSH tunnel. It has an interactive REPL, \d to describe tables, table/JSON/CSV/HTML output, and named connections. Free and MIT-licensed.
Enrichment
- Niche
- database and backend infrastructure tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- cli client for aurora postgresql via rds data api
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A CLI tool written in Go or Rust that interacts with the AWS SDK RDS Data API to execute SQL and render tables in terminal format is a well-scoped project an AI assistant can generate.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 157 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #21 of 158 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 341 days after the earliest competitor.
- LinkedQL · hn · 2025-12-08 · 31 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Xsql · hn · 2025-12-16 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Nexus DataHub · ph · 2026-10-05 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- I'm not a PostgREST fan this is why I'm building an alternative · hn · 2026-09-09 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- gRPC Graphql Gateway · ph · 2026-09-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Syncular · hn · 2026-08-02 · 79 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- OmniSelect FileSQL · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- VillageSQL · hn · 2026-02-05 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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