June 2026 Summaries

Constellation is a new open-source GraphQL engine written in Go, designed to be a near drop-in replacement for Hasura Community Edition, offering compatibility with Hasura's metadata and schema while using significantly less memory. Developed by Nhost, Constellation efficiently serves production traffic with a memory usage of about 90% less than Hasura, while delivering slightly faster request latency. Although in its alpha stage, Constellation supports PostgreSQL and SQLite backends and handles the core GraphQL request path, including queries, mutations, subscriptions, role-based permissions, and remote schemas. However, it currently lacks support for some features like Actions, event triggers, and certain database backends, so it operates alongside Hasura, which still manages metadata authoring. The developers encourage users to try Constellation alongside Hasura to compare performance, report any schema differences, runtime bugs, and contribute to its development through the Nhost monorepo on GitHub.