What is DriftDB?
It is a WebSocket message relay. You can use it for exchanging data between clients that can speak WebSocket or HTTP, even if they can’t connect to each other directly. All messages in DriftDB are scoped to a room, which is a sort of broadcast channel. It provides an API for creating rooms. Clients specify the room they are joining when they connect to DriftDB.
DriftDB is a tool in the Realtime Backend / API category of a tech stack.
DriftDB is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to DriftDB's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses DriftDB?
Companies
DriftDB Integrations
DriftDB's Features
- Publisher / subscriber channels (PubSub)
- Key/value storage with subscriptions
- Ordered streams
DriftDB Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to DriftDB?
NGINX
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Apache HTTP Server
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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.
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.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
It is a comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally.
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