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Welcome to TrailBase

An open, sub-millisecond, single-executable Firebase alternative with type-safe REST & realtime APIs, multi-DB, WebAssembly runtime, geospatial support, SSR, auth and admin UI built on Rust, Wasmtime & SQLite (or now experimentally Postgres).


Simplify with fewer moving parts: an easy to self-host single-executable with everything you need to focus on your mobile, web or desktop application. Sub-millisecond latencies eliminate the need for dedicated caches, no more stale or inconsistent data.


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Performance

Blazingly fast thanks to its constituents:

  • Rust: one of the lowest overhead languages,
  • Axum: one of the fastest HTTP servers,
  • SQLite: one of the fastest full-SQL databases (PG is an option),
  • Wasmtime: compiles custom endpoints to efficient native code.

TrailBase’s APIs are roughly 14x faster than PocketBase’s and almost 48x faster than Supabase’s while using a 1/50th of Supabase’s memory footprint at full tilt allowing you to serve tens of thousands of concurrent users from a tiny box.

Total time for 100k insertions:

Admin Dashboard

TrailBase ships with a builtin admin dashboard UI that lets you quickly configure your instance and visually explore your data. Check out the live demo below. Following TrailBase’s mantra of not getting in your way, the UI is entirely optional letting you fall back to a purely config and migration-based setup for integration tests or managing a fleet of deployments.

Screenshots of TrailBase's admin dashboard
Live Demologin: admin@localhostpassword: secret

Integrations

Straightforward integration with any stack thanks to thin abstractions, reliance on standards, and JSON Schema for type-safety allowing type-safe bindings for virtually any language.

Clients as well as code-generation examples for TypeScript, Dart/Flutter, Python, C#/.NET and Rust are provided out of the box.

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Realtime Sync

Subscribe to push-based realtime data changes letting you act quickly or synchronize your clients.

TanStack/db ships with a TrailBase integration out-of-the-box, check out example.

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Simple & Consistent

TrailBase is a single executable that is incredibly easy to deploy consistently across integration testing, development, pre-prod, and production environments including edge. Architecturally, TrailBase aims to be a simple, thin abstraction around standards helping full or piece-meal adoption and avoiding lock-in.

A simple architecture for your App and also your dependencies lets you move faster, more confidently and pivot when necessary.

Built-in Auth

TrailBase comes with an auth system and UI built in supporting both password-based and Social/OAuth (Google, Discord, …) sign-ups.

TrailBase’s auth system follows standards and best-practices combining short-lived, stateless JSON web tokens with long-lived stateful refresh tokens letting you easily and efficiently authenticate your users from any of your other back-ends relying on safe, asymmetric cryptography.

APIs & File Storage

Provide access to your tables and views through fast, flexible and type-safe restful CRUD APIs. Listen for data changes with realtime APIs and extend functionality using a fast WebAssembly runtime with support for many guest languages.

Authorize users based on ACLs and SQL access rules letting you easily build higher-level access management or moderation facilities like groups or capabilities.