Debate might be ended, I tested both and was also very impressed by NocoDB, discovered after Baserow, and was thinking to stick with NocoDB.
What pushed me back on Baserow was the following (subjective opinon) :
- Stability : Baserow is a lot more stable (imho) than NocoDB. if you open up your console in NocoDB you’ll see a bunch of errors flooding it, even when it seems to work well. That’s a orange (if not red) flag for me. I won’t say Baserow is perfect, but it just works, and I had less trouble to setup and using on a daily use.
- Roadmap and sustainability : while Baserow started recently contrary to NocoDB, the gap in feature is so close that both are proposing 90% of what a company need in terms of online database edition (if Baserow has not sometimes take the lead, I think permissions are right now more granular in Bsr). Furthermore, the open-core business model used by the Baserow company is quite reassuring for a company, while I don’t know how NocoDB development is financed (but I may have missed something). Baserow started from the beginning to announce a Free-Premium-Enterprise subscription model, while NocoDB has just nothing (for their defence, they have launch a NocoDB cloud Beta recently, which is for me a sign that the sustainability was finally raised). Quite interesting to look at Linkedin figures in terms of number of employees : Nocodb vs. Baserow. If I am a company, I more willing to pay for a less-know software that’s maintained by a sustainable business, and I furthermore may not have the time/money/skills to deploy it myself
- Community : only part on which NocoDB overflows Baserow. A debate was raised recently about moving the project to GitHub, which may help increasing visibility for it.
Sorry to revive this conversation, hopes it brings some valuable elements.