8base vs. Codehooks vs. OrbitDB vs. ThinkSQL Comparison Chart

Backend-as-a-service for building and running enterprise-grade web and mobile applications using serverless and GraphQL. 8base also provides design and software development services to assist clients with full-lifecycle product development using the 8base Platform. Stop hacking together data sources, UI libraries and other application components. 8base enables frontend developers, designers, product managers and citizen-developers to collaborate to build powerful apps with basic JavaScript skills. Fully secure your API with role-based access controls down to the field and function level. Create custom JavaScript and TypeScript logic and run as 8base Serverless Functions. All CRUD operations are auto-generated, providing immediate API access to data. 8base provides simple data modeling for defining powerful data schemas. 8base automatically handles database provisioning, maintenance, scaling, replication and security.

​OrbitDB is a serverless, distributed, peer-to-peer database that utilizes IPFS for data storage and Libp2p Pubsub for automatic synchronization across peers. It employs Merkle-CRDTs to ensure conflict-free database writes and merges, making it suitable for decentralized applications, blockchain integrations, and local-first web apps. OrbitDB offers various database types tailored to different use cases: 'events' for immutable append-only logs, 'documents' for JSON document storage indexed by a specified key, 'keyvalue' for traditional key-value pairs, and 'keyvalue-indexed' for LevelDB-indexed key-value data. All these databases are built atop OpLog, an immutable, cryptographically verifiable, operation-based CRDT structure. The JavaScript implementation supports both browser and Node.js environments, with a Go version maintained by the Berty project.