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Airtable Alternative
Desired MVP and Comparisons
List of alternatives:
Comparison to alternatives (last tested on 6th February)
Function
Story
Scope
Baserow
Supabase
Airtable
Comment
1
Table UI
User can see all values from database table (select *) through a Table UI
MVP
Yes
Yes
2
Table Views UI
User can see sub-sets of the single table data through table-views in a Table UI
MVP
Yes
Yes
3
Dynamic Column Configuration
Admin can configure columns (type, allowed values, default values) via UI/SQL or similar → “Dynamisches auslesen des Schemas”
MVP
Mostly
Mostly
Defaults and allowed values only for some column types → need to go into detail as this feels unnecessary restrictive in some situations
4
Create Views based on Conditions
Admin can configure views based on certain values (e.g. all entries where name is daniel). Ideally one or more conditions. via UI/SQL or similar
MVP
Yes
Yes
5
Create different user groups
Admin can define groups of users and give them different permissions rights. via UI/SQL or similar
MVP
Partially
Partially
6
Permission granularity per user group
Admin can define CRUD operations individually on view and column level per user group
MVP
No
No
7
New User Sign Up
Users can Sign up via Application (just local or just external is ok)
MVP
No
No
8
Application Feeling
After logging every user sees an overview of their views and can click on each of the views and perform the allowed CRUD operations (including creation)
MVP
No
No
9
File Upload
User can upload a file (pdf, powerpoint and give it metadata)
Gempex
Yes
Yes
Baserow:
IMO metadata setting is very limited. (only changing file name) And this even doesn’t work properly. Downloading a file results in a very long (and cryptic) string as file title
10
Batch File Upload
Upload multiple files at once, give them metadata at once → one row per file is created
Gempex
No
11
Sorting
ASCD and DESC per Column in the UI
Gempex
Yes
Yes
12
Tags
Each row can have multiple tags and user can create new tags too
Gempex
No
Partially
13
Search
Search based on all rows
Gempex
No
Yes
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