I've been using Hasura and TablePlus a lot lately, and actually wished for something that combines them.
Hasura is great at understanding relations and making joins feel effortless and TablePlus is so good at making table editing feel as fast as excel.
This looks like it's the thing, with some extra power thrown on top (formulas and nested layouts are nice!).
The UI looks drab, but maybe that's ok? It means the functionality needs to be so strong it doesn't matter. It also looks super snappy which matters most.
Something that Airtable has over relational database GUIs is lightweight enums and arrays of them. Sure you can model all that in SQL, but it's super useful to have it right inline. I hope this tool can pick up on a pattern like enum tables (like hasura) and provide UI that makes them look like tag list/select fields.
Check out https://xata.io/ We've taken a lot of inspiration from Airtable and applied it on top of a real database, so it sounds quite similar to the feature set that you are describing. We're in closed beta but I'm happy to give you access if you want to try it.
+1 for TablePlus! I absolutely love them for the fast editing as well as quick and dirty filters. Beats typing SQL for simple stuff. These quality of life features are really underrated. Absolutely worth the yearly fee!
I feel like they see themselves as a database management tool, but with just a few tweaks (good UI for working with relations), could be a FileMaker / Airtable contender.
Hasura is a rock solid piece of software that does pretty much exactly the right thing for me. Performance exceeds expectations and it's never once crashed or been the source of a bug in years of use. "lighter" is not convincing. Directus looks cool in the CMS/no-code space, but as a backend API hub I don't see anything there that would tempt me over hasura.
You're not looking for it but datagrip seems to be able to do exactly what table plus does while also being a full fledged SQL IDE (for the same price).
Hasura is great at understanding relations and making joins feel effortless and TablePlus is so good at making table editing feel as fast as excel.
This looks like it's the thing, with some extra power thrown on top (formulas and nested layouts are nice!).
The UI looks drab, but maybe that's ok? It means the functionality needs to be so strong it doesn't matter. It also looks super snappy which matters most.
Something that Airtable has over relational database GUIs is lightweight enums and arrays of them. Sure you can model all that in SQL, but it's super useful to have it right inline. I hope this tool can pick up on a pattern like enum tables (like hasura) and provide UI that makes them look like tag list/select fields.