Hasura
A PostgreSQL database becomes a production-grade GraphQL API the moment Hasura GraphQL Engine points at it: track tables and relationships - existing schemas included - and full query, mutation, and subscription types appear with where, order_by, limit, offset, and on_conflict arguments, no resolvers or boilerplate written. Its Haskell core compiles GraphQL to efficient SQL, and any query becomes a real-time live query with a single keyword, powering dashboards and collaborative UIs over standard GraphQL subscriptions. Authorization is where Hasura earns its enterprise reputation: role-based access control with row- and column-level permission policies driven by session variables from JWTs, auth webhooks, or headers - each role effectively sees its own GraphQL schema containing only what it may touch, integrating cleanly with Auth0, Firebase, or homegrown auth. Event triggers fire webhooks on inserts, updates, and deletes for asynchronous business logic; Actions extend the schema with custom REST handlers; remote schema stitching merges external GraphQL services into one endpoint; and auto-generated REST endpoints serve clients that skip GraphQL. A browser console handles data modeling and API exploration, the CLI manages migrations and metadata as code, and deployment is a single stateless Docker container beside Postgres.
Amplication
Amplication turns entity definitions into production-ready backend services, generating NestJS with Prisma and Apollo GraphQL for Node.js or ASP.NET Core for .NET, eliminating months of boilerplate. The plugin-driven Data Service Generator hooks into code generation lifecycle events, enabling teams to inject CI/CD manifests, proprietary authentication schemes, testing configurations, and cloud-specific deployment targets for AWS, Azure, and GCP without forking the core generator. Blueprint templates encode organizational architecture standards, security policies, and coding conventions into reusable foundations that keep every generated service consistent across the engineering organization. Jovu AI translates natural language requests into entities, relationships, fields, modules, DTOs, and custom API actions, automatically aligning each resource with predefined standards. Generated services include full CRUD operations with input validation, Swagger/OpenAPI documentation, authentication middleware, database-agnostic ORM via Prisma, optional React Admin interfaces, and Jest test scaffolding. Code output syncs to Git repositories as pull requests, preserving standard review workflows while letting developers edit every generated line and add custom business logic. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB as database targets. Over 16,000 GitHub stars with enterprise adoption. Apache 2.0 licensed.