electric-sql/electric

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Electric is a real-time read-path sync engine for Postgres that replicates data into clients via a low-level HTTP API with partial replication using Shapes. It handles fan-out, data delivery, and CDN integration so apps and AI agents can work on live local data.

Use cases

• sync postgres data to frontend apps in real time
• build collaborative apps with live local data
• give AI agents access to live local data
• scale data delivery to many clients via CDN
• avoid building custom sync infrastructure
• partially replicate subsets of a postgres database to clients

When to choose

• you need real-time read-path sync out of Postgres without writing your own sync engine
• you want partial replication of specific data shapes to clients
• you need highly scalable fan-out of database changes
• you are building local-first or agent-based apps on live data

When to avoid

• you need bidirectional write sync back into Postgres
• your source database is not Postgres
• you only need simple request/response queries without live updates

Facets

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database streaming api-framework http-server caching databases web-development microservices elixir self-hosted cloud postgres-sync partial-replication shapes read-path-sync cdn-integration crdt real-time-data local-first real-time ai-agents docker web-server

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