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spacecloud-io/space-cloud
Open source Firebase + Heroku to develop, scale and secure serverless apps on Kubernetes
SpaceCloud was a Firebase/Heroku alternative that put a GraphQL and REST API layer in front of your databases (Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, SQL Server) and ran on Kubernetes. The project is now in maintenance mode — the README itself tells you to use Hasura or WunderGraph instead. This is effectively a dead project.
The architecture was sound: a single Go gateway handling auth, schema validation, and query generation kept the surface area small. The eventing module used Debezium under the hood for CDC, which is the right tool for that job. Cross-database joins via GraphQL was a genuinely useful feature that competitors took longer to ship. The test coverage across SQL dialects (integration tests hitting real databases) was more honest than most projects of this vintage.
It's abandoned — last meaningful commit was years before the 2024 maintenance-mode notice, and the team explicitly redirects you to competitors. The dbevents component mixes Go and Scala in the same repo with no obvious reason, adding operational complexity for what should be a straightforward CDC pipeline. The Kubernetes-first stance made local development friction high: running it for a simple project meant standing up a full cluster. Documentation links in the README point to domains that may not be maintained.