What is 8base?
A cloud service designed to power enterprise-grade web and mobile applications that require support for large numbers of users, complex data and transactional requirements, comprehensive role-based security and a modern look-and-feel.
8base is a tool in the Realtime Backend / API category of a tech stack.
Who uses 8base?
Companies
3 companies reportedly use 8base in their tech stacks, including Jumpgrowth, fisherman-dev, and cobuildlab.
Developers
28 developers on StackShare have stated that they use 8base.
8base Integrations
MySQL, GraphQL, AWS Lambda, Salesforce Sales Cloud, and Auth0 are some of the popular tools that integrate with 8base. Here's a list of all 6 tools that integrate with 8base.
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8base's Features
- A simple but powerful data schema definition.
- Fully redundant, secure and scalable relational database and file storage.
- Built-in role-based security and user administration tools.
- Native connectivity for Salesforce.com and other external data sources.
- A serverless backend that supports event-driven logic written in Javascript and Typescript.
- Over 30 authentication providers.
- A GraphQL API with advanced filtering, pagination and full-text search capabilities.
- In-document full-text search, optical character recognition and image recognition.
- Support for React, Angular, Vue.js, Swift (iOS), Android and React Native.
- UI scaffolding / UI generator.
- Optional Boost UI Kit.
8base Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to 8base?
Firebase
Firebase is a cloud service designed to power real-time, collaborative applications. Simply add the Firebase library to your application to gain access to a shared data structure; any changes you make to that data are automatically synchronized with the Firebase cloud and with other clients within milliseconds.
Hasura
An open source GraphQL engine that deploys instant, realtime GraphQL APIs on any Postgres database.
NGINX
nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.
Apache HTTP Server
The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the Internet.
Amazon EC2
It is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
