8base Pros and Cons

Super easy backend solution. I like the GUI for managing the DB. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Well, for the frontend; it does the eaisy things easier but the hard things harder

Backend: would be nice to have some further development such as integration with zapier and such. Feels a bit dead in terms of updates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Solution Advisors foster confidence that 8base is sincerely invested in customer success. Native toolset is vastly extensible via JAVA & TypeScript. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Slack connectivity to internal resources is touted as value added but falls short of potential due to profuctory replies and lack of follow up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love the ease with which you can create tables and relationships as well as the different queries.

and complex queries can be made very easily from the client. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

the limit it has for triggers since it cannot exceed a certain weight and for large projects it can be a problem.

and also not having a log of all requests can make it difficult to identify when it is a server or code error. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I am the CEO of a Software Development and Professional SaaS Company. 8base provides ease of mind and simplifies my business by providing Professional Backend-as-a-Service. these Services include; AWS usage, Database, Security, Scalability, rights and permissions, Data Model and GraphQL Engine and all the DevOps Services. The value is incredible and allows us to service our Customers and Solution Users at en extremely high level.

We leverage 8base for all the Back-end Services and our Developers just need to build the front end Web Applications using the GraphQL (API) calls to the established back-end .

8base also simplifies our use of AWS and Database usage, with predictable costs and virtually unlimited scalability.

8base is also very service oriented and helpful to leverage all aspects of the platform.

In addition , the new 8base Application Builder fills a need to streamline Web Application Development while leveraging the Platform / Backend Services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really do not have any dislikes. Any issues that have arisen they have helped us understand immediately.

Building Front-end Apps using React-JavaScript takes a professional Developer. With the new 8base Application Builder this helps me have the proper developers for the proper business case. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's straightforward to use and amicable for the new developer, the API explorer work well, and it has all the functionality that's needed to test the queries and mutations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes it's slow and has some issues and bugs with migrations, but nothing that prevents the workflow, the documentation is very useful and has all that's needed, but sometimes it's difficult for the newbie. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- GUI database managment

- Branching environments

- Built-in API Explorer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Migration generation/commiting

- Build times

- The decision to remove one-to one relations (Guys, it's a DB management tool, 1-to-1 is one of the core relation types that should be always available). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I can get all the products on the same platform, DB with graphql, cloud functions like webhooks, triggers, tasks, etc with an environment like nodejs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

that deployments often fail and are very slow to run again. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You get automatically created queries and mutations and resolvers are very easy to adapt to special needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It restricts a bit the capacity with the DB I think at firtst, it would be nice to have ability to do SQL queries Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

8Base is an amazing platform for developing web applications so fast, it's secure, and it allows developers to interact without losing control. The cost is really very good for the value it generates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

8Base just needs to include more base examples to take from there and evolve the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Very knowledgeable team. Took the time to understand my business and provided comprehensive support to define the scope and set clear expectations for the engagement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dependency on 3rd party service providers to establish business requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.