NodusDB
Zanzibar-style authorization, embedded like SQLite
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NodusDB is an authorization database you import, not a service you call. Write zanzibar-style permissions and check them through nested groups and folders in 14 µs, inside your own python process. Every write also lands in one signed log in your S3 bucket, which gives you replicas, an Iceberg table for SQL audit, time travel and GDPR erasure. Benchmarked in open against SpiceDB and OpenFGA. Free and open source.
PH · launched Nov 12, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 19%) · 0 views
Niche: database management systems and engines · 162 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -17% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Data infrastructure
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Open Source
- Developer Tools
- GitHub
- Security
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Could you build this?
No A Zanzibar-style authorization engine that is embedded, sub-15 µs, and consistent, with a signed write log, replicas, and Iceberg output, is database-internals work that vibe coding can only approximate at prototype level.
What it would actually take: The core is a graph-based permission engine with indexed relation tuples, consistency tokens or zookies, and cached nested-group evaluation, likely in Rust or C++ with Python bindings. The hard parts are correctness under concurrent writes and the performance target, plus the signed append-only log and Iceberg/S3 replication. This needs experienced database and distributed-systems engineers and rigorous benchmarking and testing.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 67 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #12 of 68 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 378 days after the earliest competitor.
- NodusDB · hn · 2026-11-10 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.77
- ChikkaDB · hn · 2025-11-29 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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- EntiHub - Master data under control · ph · 2026-09-24 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Nomad DB · ph · 2026-09-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Africa Verify · ph · 2026-10-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Spicedb-dev. Claude Code plugin that adds authorization as you build · hn · 2026-04-09 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Moogo · ph · 2026-10-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.38
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