8base Pros and Cons

The easy way to have a graphql api from a relational database Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometime the performance of the queries gets low when a table has to much relations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the ease of database management: you can easily create and update tables. For example, you can delete table rows, and 8base takes care of normalization.

It also has integration with Auth0. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

8base doesn't have Auth0 integration with Gatsby yet. There is a demo on how to integrate Auth0 with React, but Gatsby's environment has some differences. I put in a request for direct integration with Gatsby, but it's still in the works. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As a small business, 8Base has become increasingly useful as a single touchpoint for all our database and infrastructure needs. It's become easier for us to manage and scale our technologies as we use them. Its low-code environment can be managed even by non-technical staff. This is a huge plus! In addition, a number of other qualities come to mind: the customer service has been timely, the platform has the ability to easily and manually fix/input data, to quickly search and query information, and to silo data into a variety of environments with a single click. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Over three years, several times I have had our database go down and we were unable to see what went wrong. This is a big problem, as we are in the Healthcare space and working with doctors. Since those times, the customer support and engineering team at 8Base has drastically improved and we have issues fixed in no time. It's great! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We love the ability to quickly create functions that exist behind a GraphQL API, without needing to set up the additional infrastructure or security. The ability to easily modify and change data structures within the data storage system is a game changer, as it allows for great amounts of flexibility as you explore customer needs. Overall, the platform has sped up development through to deployment and we are able to implement changes or enhancements much quicker. The more our development team uses 8Base, the more positive feedback we receive. 8Base is preferred over even comparable AWS tools! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Overall, there truly isn't much to be critical of. If we had to critique, we would like to see a way to easily tack on a monitoring system to centralize our logging system with the rest of our tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I've been using 8base for a few years now and it's been an amazing choice for our backends.

with 8base I was able to set up a database with a built-in graphQL server in minutes.

The UI for managing the database, creating new tables and columns with specific types and relationships is simply fantastic,

The UI for managing and creating roles is great and super simple to set up roles and permissions overall.

The documentation now overall is pretty good as well, and I've only had to contact support a few times for questions a couple of years ago, and they have definitely improved the documentation further since.

The price for the service is reasonable even for single small developers like me or for hobby projects.

8base support has been pretty great.

Overall it's a fantastic service and I recommend it to everyone who wants to set up a backend as a service quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

My dislikes are very nitpicky except 1 thing.

The only real negative I have experienced with 8base is that the login and register functionality for customers have gone down several times in the years I have used it. I believe around 5 times in total it was down for more than an hour. Each time I created a support ticket and usually got a quick response that they started working on fixing it quickly no matter the time of day.

To my understanding it has only been the "loginWithEmailAndPassword" and "signUpWithEmailAndPassword" functions that have broken over time. Which you only need to use if you want to handle login/register on your website. However the default recommended login/signup method is to redirect the user to an auth0 login/register page, and then get redirected back to your own website after the user logs in. (I think this login/signup method is the one they have most focus on and that likely has been functional the entire time).

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When I first signed up 8base had a fantastic live chat support where you could talk to experienced 8base support members live to figure out issues. They have since removed the live chat and the only way to contact them is now the community forum they have, or a support ticket system.

This isn't really that big of a deal since the docs are pretty great and I pretty much only use the support if things go down. But it was nice to have the live chat option. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The thing I like the most is the GraphQL API Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The way we have to handle commits, deployments and schemas updates. And the documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Database feature set is great - managing tables and relations is very easy. Cloud functions work nicely and documentation is pretty good. As a newer platform its doing well to try and get feature parity with some bigger players whilst adding its own touch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pricing model has room for improvement, direct access to the DB would be a great addition and the Front End builder has a long way to go before it can match other players in the Low Code builder scene. More external integrations on both the back and front end would be great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Turning your ideas into reality is made easy using 8Base. We at ITWox specialize in working with Startups, most of the startups have similar challenges like the cost to build, time to market, and infrastructure management etc. We are able to solve most of these challenges using the 8Base platform. A few interesting features to talk about are

- Managing the data is easy because of the prebuilt API.

- The UI is easy to understand, and very interactive.

- The API explorer is a very useful tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As 8base is developing new features, the documentation is sometimes not very clear or does not look deep enough into the functionality, so it is difficult to get complex data structures done at first. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

My company, ITWox Inc., (www.itwox.com) provides a "Virtual CTO organization" for FinTechs and other start-ups - including technology strategy, product strategy, UI/UX design & development/support services spread across our 3 delivery centers (USA, Costa Rica & India).

8base has been a great partner & platform for our customers as it takes care of some of the harder plumbing in any application/platform development (DevOps, Security & Infra scaling) as the platform reduces the time/effort significantly. Onboarding new developers have been a breeze for us & on average it took us 2 days for a developer to know the platform in-depth as well as start building apps. This in itself is a significant gain in productivity.

As we work with start-ups, 8base has been a great fit to get to market much faster, with stability & scale of the backend.

Overall: very happy with the platform & excited to see it take off in the community Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You are limited to AWS Cognito or Auth0 for authentication - but then these are good enough for most of our client base.

Besides that, not much to dislike here as it does what it claims to do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think the product speaks for itself. My team and I were drawn to it from our first tests. After that, the 8base team reached out to us and gave us the confidence to start building on their platform. Now we have a small (but growing) business unit built around low-code with 8base at the core. Whenever we ran into a speedbump their support team has been readily available which is something we appreciate a lot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are some features that we have requested and we are super excited about App Builder. So it´s not that we dislike stuff but we wish it was available sooner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.