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Direct Data API or Governed Business Query API? Supabase and TeaQL Solve Different Boundaries

· 10 min read
Philip Z
Architect

Supabase gives applications a direct Data API. TeaQL gives applications and AI agents a governed business query API.

The two ideas can produce a similar developer experience: a frontend composes a query instead of waiting for a backend team to add one more endpoint. But they place the public boundary at different layers of the system.

Supabase reflects a PostgreSQL schema into an API. TeaQL exposes capabilities from a shared business model and lets a trusted runtime decide how those capabilities are executed. That difference becomes important when an application has complex authorization, several backend languages, multiple data sources, or AI agents that need composition without database authority.