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What are some alternatives to NATS?
Kafka, Firebase, Socket.IO, Pusher, and Google Cloud Pub/Sub are the most popular alternatives and competitors to NATS. "High-throughput" is the primary reason why developers choose Kafka.
Kafka
Distributed, fault tolerant, high throughput pub-sub messaging system
Why people like Kafka:
- High-throughput
- Distributed
- Scalable
- High-Performance
Firebase
The Realtime App Platform
Why people like Firebase:
- Realtime backend made easy
- Fast and responsive
- Easy setup
- Real-time
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
WCF
A runtime and a set of APIs for building connected, service-oriented applications
SocketCluster
An open, scalable realtime engine for Node.js
Why people like SocketCluster:
- Cluster mode is awesome
- Scalability
- WebSockets
- Real-time
deepstream.io
A scalable server for realtime webapps
Why people like deepstream.io:
- RethinkDB
- Real-time
- Node.js
- WebRTC
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
Simperium
Move data everywhere it's needed, instantly and automatically
Why people like Simperium:
- Simple and useful data model
- Cross-platform
- Free plan
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
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
8base
A fully-managed, cloud-based data and serverless compute service exposed through a GraphQL API.
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