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supabase / storage

storage

S3 compatible object storage service that stores metadata in Postgres

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S3 compatible object storage service that stores metadata in Postgres

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Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 12:03:30 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2021-03-30 14:46:51 UTC to 2026-02-13 08:48:42 UTC.

01232021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
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20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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steve-chavez·Mar 30, 2021
> We use open source to build our software (hey nothing special here : bazillion companies do that) That's not true. Supabase improves and builds the open source ecosystem it uses. In the case of PostgREST, we've added performance improvements that could very well be in a private fork(which other companies have done), but Supabase, in the good spirit of open source, decided to make these changes upstream. The same goes for realtime, the team has been improving its performance to an enterprise-grade and making all these changes open source. Even the storage API[1] presented here is OSS. I believe all of these efforts are a net win for the open source community at large. Zealotry doesn't help anyone. [1]: https://github.com/supabase/storage-api
In Storage is now available in Supabase (YC S20)
kiwicopple·Mar 30, 2021
Hey HN, Supabase is an open source Firebase alternative. We're building the features of Firebase using enterprise-grade open source tools. We're particularly focused on scalability. We take proven tools like Postgres, and we make them as easy to use as Firebase. Today Supabase is releasing Storage. This is our second launch of Launch Week[1]. The linked blog post goes into depth around the technical implementation, so I’ll just give a recap for the people who jump straight to comments (like me). Backend: We are using S3 as a File store. Since most storage platforms have an S3-compatible API, this made the most sense. We will add more providers (like Backblaze) in the future. Middleware: This is the key part. We assessed a lot of tools including Ceph, Swift, Minio and Zenko. These are all awesome, but they aren’t tightly integrated with Po
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stgres. The tooling in Supabase is centered around Postgres: the APIs use PostgREST[2], the Realtime engine hooks into Postgres’ WAL[3] and we use GoTrue[4] + Postgres Row Level Security[5] for Auth. Since we already use RLS for Auth, we decided to leverage the same functionality for managing access to Files. We created an API [6] which wraps everything up into a nice interface. This obviously goes against our philosophy of “support existing tools” - the linked blog post describes our rationale more thoroughly. Future: This is very much an “alpha” release of Storage. We have a lot of great features planned for a CDN, automatic resizing, optimizations, and since it’s using Postgres there potentially are a few neat things we can do with Full Text Search and Data Loading. A few of the team will be here to answer any questions - my cofounder @awalias and @steve-chavez from PostgREST, @inian, and @1_over_n [1] Launch week: https://supabase.io/new/blog/2021/03/25/launch-week [2] PostgREST: http://postgrest.org/ [3] Realtime: https://github.com/supabase/realtime [4] GoTrue: https://github.com/supabase/supabase/tree/master/docker [5] RLS: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-rowsecurity.html [6] Storage API: https://github.com/supabase/storage-api
In Storage is now available in Supabase (YC S20)

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