Database Selection Guide for Front-End Developers (2025)

The Databases Dominating 2025: What Developers Actually Use

I’ve been building front-end applications for more than a decade, and in that time I’ve worked with just about every kind of database you can imagine—SQL, NoSQL, in-memory stores, and even some niche solutions that never caught on. Each year, new approaches pop up. Just like React reshaped how we think about building interfaces, databases keep evolving and changing the way we structure and store our data.

Over the years, I’ve experimented with many options, but nowadays I find myself leaning most toward Supabase. It’s strike the right balance between performance, developer experience, and integration with modern front-end frameworks.

This guide highlights the most front-end–friendly databases, explains their sweet spots, and links directly to their documentation so you can dive deeper.