alt Hacker NewsShow HN: LinkedQL – Live Queries over Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB
LinkedQL is a new SQL client that supports live queries over any Postgres, MySQL, and MariaDB database. You get result sets that self-update differentially as rows change in your database – via inserts, updates, deletes. Works with no extra tooling/ORM layer or GraphQL servers. You opt into live mode simply with a flag: client.query('SELECT ...', { live: true }). More at: https://linked-ql.netlify.app/capabilities/live-queries
LinkedQL is written in JavaScript and runs in both client and server environments.
GitHub + docs: https://github.com/linked-db/linked-ql
Demo examples included.
I’d love feedback: • Anything confusing? • Anything seems useful or dangerous? • Anything else that'd make you consider LinkedQL for production?
Thanks for taking a look — happy to answer any questions.
Comments
A few questions/comments after skimming the docs:
- How does authz work? Can I use Postgres RLS? If not, how would you address row or column-level permissions in a system that uses this? - If you're using logical replication to sync with PG, is there a limit to the number of clients you can have connected? I see there is a lot of work around de-duping live queries, but how well does that work in practice? - Any thought to making an extension for Postgres? My main hesitation right now is that I have to go through an NPM package to use this but a lot of our tooling expects a plain Postgres connection. - REALLY looking forward to seeing how the schema migration story looks.
Overall, it seems to address most of the use-cases where I'd reach for an ORM or API server so I'm really interested to see where this could go.
Author here — a bit more detail on architecture and guarantees
Happy to dig into internals if anyone’s curious — how live updates propagate, how JOINs and complex queries resolve, consistency expectations, worst-case scaling, etc.
To keep the main post short, here are deep-dive links if you want to explore:
• Live update mechanics https://linked-ql.netlify.app/capabilities/live-queries
• Engineering paper (replication pipelines, differential projection, query inheritance) https://linked-ql.netlify.app/engineering/realtime-engine
Totally open to questions — I’m hanging around the thread to learn what concerns matter most.
This is an backend library? How to enable Live queries in the frontend?
How you solve scale of Live queries different from Zero sync? zero.rocicorp.dev
The docs and the comments here are clearly LLM generated. Please don't submit AI slop to HN, or at the very least talk about it in your own words!
The commit history is legitimately insane though: https://github.com/linked-db/linked-ql/commits/master/
Your docs say live queries for MySQL and MariaDB are "coming soon", but your post here strongly suggests they're already supported. Is this actually implemented yet or not?