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by kgodey 3mo ago
Thanks for catching this, should be fixed. It was a PNG because I forgot to compress it after making the image!
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Show HN: Hosted version of Mathesar, intuitive open source UI built on Postgres(mathesar.cloud)
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The Long Way into Open Source(opensource.org)
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by kgodey 2y ago
If you like Mathesar’s approach but need to work with MySQL, FDWs would let you connect a MySQL database to Mathesar for data entry and querying. This could be useful if you also have Postgres data and want to work with both in a single int
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by kgodey 2y ago
As a side note, we _are_ considering adding support for other database backends through Postgres foreign data wrappers: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Foreign_data_wrappers . If this is something you'd be interes
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by kgodey 2y ago
NocoDB is a universal database GUI that supports multiple backends, while Mathesar is Postgres-only but deeply integrated with its native features, like using Postgres roles and privileges for access control. NocoDB also adds its own UI-lev
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by kgodey 2y ago
Thank you! Where would you need to hide these fields? If you had some time, it would be great if you could make a GitHub issue with more details about your use case! https://github.com/mathesar-foundation/mathesar/
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by kgodey 2y ago
I think they're pretty different use cases. LibreOffice Base and Kexi are desktop database frontends focused on local databases, while Mathesar is web-based, self-hosted, can be connected to a remote database, and built for multi-user
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by kgodey 2y ago
We don't have the capacity to do that internally, but we were thinking about having a "Community Guides" section of our docs where people could contribute guides to setting up Mathesar on different infrastructure. Let me know
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by kgodey 2y ago
Just a heads-up, I’m opinionated on this! Every app has some terminology you need to learn to use it effectively, we just think that terminology should actually map to how databases work, rather than being an arbitrary abstraction. Instead
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by kgodey 2y ago
Ultorg is awesome! Eirik (Ultorg's founder) and I compare notes every once in a while. :)
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by kgodey 2y ago
If you're referring to the line count being omitted here: https://github.com/mathesar-foundation/mathesar/graphs/contr... , please submit your feedback to the GitHub product team, we have no say in their
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by kgodey 2y ago
Well, we're a nonprofit, we don't have investors :) Also, I'm pretty sure any investor who cared about commit counts would be a terrible investor.
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by kgodey 2y ago
Yep, AGPL can run alongside proprietary services without issues, and if you host it without modifications, you don’t have to share anything. But if you modify it and make it available over a network, you have to provide the source to users.
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by kgodey 2y ago
Thank you! And yeah, I understand your gripe. The tagline is meant to convey the general idea of "editing data in a table UI without a lot of clicks or keystrokes" in the fewest number in words; it does sacrifice precision (althou
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by kgodey 2y ago
Yeah, I understand why that would be a concern. For what it's worth, our schemas are completely isolated and never touch any other data. We use them to store our DB functions and custom data types. The functions are what lets us reflec
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by kgodey 2y ago
We don't have any ability to customize UIs yet, although we're certainly open to feature requests. We do have a "Record Page" for each individual record that shows a tabular view of related records from other tables, her
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by kgodey 2y ago
I think it was termites. But they built a huge spaceship.
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by kgodey 2y ago
Mathesar doesn’t cache any database state, it always reflects the live structure of the database. If you run migrations through SQLAlchemy or Django, Mathesar will just show the database as it is before and after the migration, no extra ste
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by kgodey 2y ago
sixdimensional covered this pretty well, but just to reiterate, I believe DBeaver is primarily a desktop app aimed at a technical audience. Mathesar is web-based and designed to have an intuitive, collaborative, spreadsheet-like UI for non-
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by kgodey 2y ago
Never give up, never surrender!
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by kgodey 2y ago
Here's some background info on our current funding: https://mathesar.org/blog/2024/03/28/mathesar-foundation-ann... We're working on multiple options for sustainability, both the traditional no
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by kgodey 2y ago
Yep, Mathesar is GPLv3, not AGPL, so there’s no issue running it alongside proprietary services. Companies can absolutely use Mathesar as a standalone service in their stack without open-sourcing their other components. Another example of t
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by kgodey 2y ago
This is one of the things we're actively considering working on soon! It's mentioned in the "What's next?" section of our beta release announcement: https://mathesar.org/blog/2025/01/2
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by kgodey 2y ago
Metabase is a BI tool focused on querying, reporting, and visualization, but it’s read-only. Mathesar is closer to Airtable, you get a spreadsheet-like UI, you can view and query data like Metabase, but you can also add and edit data or eve
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by kgodey 2y ago
Thanks! We do not have a SQL editor in the UI yet, but it's one of the things we're actively considering working on soon, it's mentioned in the "What's next?" section of our beta release announcement: https:&#
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by kgodey 2y ago
Mathesar project lead here, it's a nice surprise to see this on the front page! I'm happy to answer questions if anyone has any.
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by kgodey 2y ago
I also went through the exact same thought process, then I thought I could at least share my ACE score, and yeah, no. I noticed that the OP is using a throwaway account as well.
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by kgodey 2y ago
I assume by zip code.
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by kgodey 2y ago
I'll throw in https://github.com/mathesar-foundation/mathesar (disclaimer: I work on it).

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