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ably vs Kinto: What are the differences?

Developers describe ably as "A platform that makes it easy for you to add realtime messaging, notifications and streaming data to your applications". It enables any internet enabled device on the planet to publish data streams to any number of subscribers in milliseconds. Our infrastructure spans over 20 data centres globally ensuring low latency performance, redundant storage of all data and commitment to meet our guaranteed quality of service promise. On the other hand, Kinto is detailed as "Open-source alternative to Firebase and Parse". Kinto is a lightweight JSON storage service with synchronisation and sharing abilities.

ably and Kinto can be primarily classified as "Realtime Backend / API" tools.

Kinto is an open source tool with 3.77K GitHub stars and 355 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Kinto's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of Ably
Pros of Kinto
  • 8
    WebSockets
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    Highly reliable
  • 6
    SSE
  • 6
    Massive scalability
  • 6
    Great technical support
  • 5
    Channel Presence
  • 5
    Free plan
  • 5
    Channel History
  • 5
    Message queueing
  • 5
    Global cloud network of data centers
  • 4
    WebHooks
  • 4
    MQTT
  • 4
    Consistently high performance
  • 4
    Third-party cloud integrations
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    What is Ably?

    Ably offers WebSockets, stream resume, history, presence, and managed third-party integrations to make it simple to build, extend, and deliver digital realtime experiences at scale.

    What is Kinto?

    Kinto is a lightweight JSON storage service with synchronisation and sharing abilities.

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