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What are some alternatives to Firebase?
Parse, MongoDB, Auth0, Heroku, and Realm are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Firebase. "Easy setup" is the primary reason why developers choose Parse.
Parse
The complete mobile app platform
Why people like Parse:
- Easy setup
- Free hosting
- Well-documented
- Cheap
MongoDB
The database for giant ideas
Why people like MongoDB:
- Document-oriented storage
- No sql
- Ease of use
- Fast
Auth0
Token-based Single Sign On for your Apps and APIs with social, databases and enterprise identities
Why people like Auth0:
- JSON web token
- Integration with 20+ Social Providers
- It's a universal solution
- SDKs
Heroku
Build, deliver, monitor and scale web apps and APIs with a trail blazing developer experience.
Why people like Heroku:
- Easy deployment
- Free for side projects
- Huge time-saver
- Simple scaling
Realm
Realm makes it easy to build reactive apps, realtime collaborative features, and offline-first experiences.
Why people like Realm:
- Good
- Strong Adoption Growth
- Cloud Syncing
- React Native Support
Contentful
Manage content once, publish it anywhere
Why people like Contentful:
- API-based cms
- Much better than WordPress
- Simple and customizable
- Free for small projects
Couchbase
Document-Oriented NoSQL Database
Why people like Couchbase:
- Flexible data model, easy scalability, extremely fast
- High performance
- Mobile app support
- You can query it with Ansi-92 SQL
Google Cloud Storage
Durable and highly available object storage service
Why people like Google Cloud Storage:
- Scalable
- Cheap
- Reliable
- Easy
Amazon Web Services
The world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 165 fully featured services
Why people like Amazon Web Services:
Socket.IO
Realtime application framework (Node.JS server)
Why people like Socket.IO:
- Real-time
- Event-based communication
- Node.js
- Open source
Pusher
Hosted APIs to build realtime apps with less code
Why people like Pusher:
- An easy way to give customers realtime features
- Websockets
- Simple
- Easy to get started with
Google Cloud Pub/Sub
Global service for real-time and reliable messaging and streaming data
Why people like Google Cloud Pub/Sub:
- Easy to set-up and start with
SignalR
A new library for ASP.NET developers that makes developing real-time web functionality easy.
Why people like SignalR:
- Supports .NET server
- WebSockets
- Fallback to SSE, forever frame, long polling
- Real-time
PubNub
Build real-time apps quickly and scale them globally.
Why people like PubNub:
- Massively scalable & easy to use
- Easy setup
- Reliable
- Great support
NATS
Lightweight publish-subscribe & distributed queueing messaging system
Why people like NATS:
- Fastest pub-sub system out there
- Rock solid
- Easy to grasp
- Easy, Fast, Secure
WCF
A runtime and a set of APIs for building connected, service-oriented applications
deepstream.io
A scalable server for realtime webapps
Why people like deepstream.io:
- RethinkDB
- Real-time
- Node.js
- WebRTC
SocketCluster
An open, scalable realtime engine for Node.js
Why people like SocketCluster:
- Cluster mode is awesome
- Scalability
- WebSockets
- Real-time
Faye
Simple pub/sub messaging for the web
Why people like Faye:
- Simple
- Open source
- Node.js
- Real-time
Horizon
A realtime, open-source JavaScript back end from RethinkDB
Pulsar
Distributed solution providing messaging and queuing for streaming data
Why people like Pulsar:
- Simple
Telepat
Real time data synchronization platform for modern API driven web&mobile apps
Syncano
a highly flexible real-time backend as a service.
Why people like Syncano:
- Admin GUI
- Data modeling
- BaaS
- Scalability
ably
A platform that makes it easy for you to add realtime messaging, notifications and streaming data to your applications
Radar
High level API and backend for writing web apps that use push messaging
Simperium
Move data everywhere it's needed, instantly and automatically
Why people like Simperium:
- Simple and useful data model
- Cross-platform
- Free plan
Firehose.io
Build realtime Ruby web applications
Why people like Firehose.io:
- Works with ActiveRecord
- Rails gem
- RESTful
- Clean way to build real-time web applications
Nchan
A scalable, flexible pub/sub server for the modern web
Streamdata.io
Efficiently Turn APIs into Real-time Experiences
Why people like Streamdata.io:
- The quickest way to turn any existing API into stream
- Best way to stream a static API
8base
A fully-managed, cloud-based data and serverless compute service exposed through a GraphQL API.