Migrate Your Airplane Data to Any Database Using BuildShip

If you’ve heard the latest in the realm of acquisitions and mergers, you’d be aware that Airtable acquired Airplane, leading to the closure of all existing Airplane apps by March 1st.

Now, here's the scoop: plenty of businesses like yours are in the data transfer dilemma. This is critical in terms of making an informed decision instead of hastily committing to any tool. It's not just about transferring data; it's about doing it right.

BuildShip to the Rescue

BuildShip is a low-code visual backend builder that can help you build backend tasks, scheduled jobs and powerful APIs with ease. It supports nodes for any database that you can use to perform CRUD operations.

Since many of you will be moving on to Airtable, you need a tool that makes this process smoother plus can potentially assist you to automate and update your Airtable bases based on any event. BuildShip here can do it all!

Continue Utilizing Your Current SQL Databases

Your database is the most important thing in this situation. Airplane uses the MySQL database, and with BuildShip, you can continue using your MySQL database through the dedicated MySQL nodes.

These nodes help you perform functionalities such as inserting new rows, updating existing data, deleting specific records, executing custom SQL queries, and fetching desired data based on a specific criteria.

For a more intensive tutorial, view the video below.

Migrate Your Airplane Data to ANY Database

Chances are, your team may have a preferred database, but the prospect of vendor lock-in has kept you from exploring other options. The exciting news is that BuildShip breaks free from these constraints, offering support for various databases such as Firebase, Supabase, Planetscale, AWS, Postgres, and more.

You’ll find dedicated nodes pertaining to each database where you can perform various CRUD operations, go through setup instructions and watch tailored guided tutorials to help you thorough.

Alternatively, BuildShip features its own built-in, ready-to-use database that provides a hassle-free solution for storing and building upon your data.

2X Your Capabilities With Airtable & BuildShip

Data transfer is a critical item on your urgent to-do list, but with BuildShip, it's just the beginning. Our platform goes the extra mile by offering dedicated Airtable nodes to enhance your experience even further.

Not only can BuildShip help you setup your Airtable integration but also helps you in bringing your Airtable data into BuildShip, allowing you to construct logic blocks and workflows easily. You can start by performing CRUD operations on Airtable bases triggered by specific events. Imagine creating new records upon user signup, handling stripe payments, or updating existing database information with ease - get all this done with BuildShip. Access Full Documentation

Airplane Alternatives

Now, shifting our focus to the user-facing side. What if you prefer not to transition to Airtable? What alternatives do you have? And how can BuildShip help with that?

While Airtable is a robust tool, it may not be the ideal fit for every application. The cost can become a significant factor, the complexity might pose challenges, and it may not be the best choice if certain premium features like data handling, app building, and automation features are not you primary concern at the moment.

If you're seeking a UI similar to Airplane to develop your internal tools, you can choose from the following tools based on the specific use case you employed Airplane for:

Retool: Create internal UIs, Share database queries and REST endpoints and build Customer-facing applications in low-code style.

Stackby: Consider Stackby as an excellent alternative to Airtable—quite similar but more budget-friendly. While each tool has its unique naming conventions and UI placements, Stackby proves to be a much more economical option. If you can spare the time to familiarize yourself with its subtle placement differences, Stackby stands out as a favorable choice.

Consider Glide for crafting customized data interfaces. Unlike Airtable, which emphasizes data management and may necessitate migrating both your front end and data sources, Glide allows you to focus solely on creating front ends for your key data.

Opt for Spreadsheet.com for greater flexibility compared to Airtable. While Airtable operates on information by column, Spreadsheet.com allows you to work at the level of individual cells. Regardless of the column label, you have the freedom to modify the formula in any row at any given point.

In essence, Airtable relies on a database to manage your data, while Spreadsheet.com utilizes a spreadsheet format. If you or your team is more at ease with an Excel-style format, Spreadsheet.com becomes the preferred tool for developing projects and managing information similar to what you would do on Airtable.

The Best Airplane Alternative for Workflow Automation

Buildship Tables: BuildShip in itself provides you with BuildShip Tables that gives you an easy visual way to manage your BuildShip Database in spreadsheet style. Though BuildShip tables are not robust and support as many data types and templates as in Airtable, the emphasis here is on simplicity, as it is an integral part of the product.

BuildShip Tables effectively cover a wide range of use cases, especially if you don't require Airtable's premium features. Additionally, it opens up your database to integration with hundreds of apps that you can directly connect and perform various operations on.

Moreover, BuildShip has pre-built CRUD nodes available under the BuildShip Database Integrations section in the Node Library. These nodes are similar to the Firestore database nodes and are meant to help you insert, query, and manipulate your BuildShip Data.

If you are looking for quick and ready-to-use database with an instant database management UI, we’d recommend you to use BuildShip Tables.

How BuildShip Ties in Everything

Depending on the tool you end up going with, you can further improve the experience by incorporating BuildShip in your app. BuildShip offers custom inbuilt nodes for many popular tools, and in the event of a missing integration, you can swiftly create one for any tool using the AI generation feature.

For example, in a Stackby integration, you can instruct the BuildShip AI to generate a node that adds new form submissions directly to Stackby as rows and it’ll generate a node that does just that.

This approach liberates you from being tied to any specific tool, providing the flexibility to add or remove tools, transfer data between multiple apps, and create any functionality that your app may need.

Get Started With BuildShip

To kickstart your journey, explore our comprehensive documentation. Alternatively, tap into our network of BuildShip experts who can guide you through migrating your Airplane data in a database of your choice and swiftly setting you up and running with Airtable !