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  5. Airtable vs Loader.io

Airtable vs Loader.io

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Overview

Loader.io
Loader.io
Stacks71
Followers173
Votes18
Airtable
Airtable
Stacks1.0K
Followers890
Votes40

Airtable vs Loader.io: What are the differences?

What is Airtable? *Real-time spreadsheet-database hybrid *. Working with Airtable is as fast and easy as editing a spreadsheet. But only Airtable is backed by the power of a full database, giving you rich features far beyond what a spreadsheet can offer.

What is Loader.io? Simple Cloud-based Load Testing. Loader.io is a free load testing service that allows you to stress test your web-apps/apis with thousands of concurrent connections.

Airtable belongs to "Spreadsheets as a Backend" category of the tech stack, while Loader.io can be primarily classified under "Load and Performance Testing".

"Powerful and easy to use" is the top reason why over 9 developers like Airtable, while over 5 developers mention "Easy to use" as the leading cause for choosing Loader.io.

Zenefits, Hazeorid, and Cookly are some of the popular companies that use Airtable, whereas Loader.io is used by OpenLabel, DocEngage, and CybrHome. Airtable has a broader approval, being mentioned in 40 company stacks & 20 developers stacks; compared to Loader.io, which is listed in 14 company stacks and 8 developer stacks.

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Advice on Loader.io, Airtable

DetStartups
DetStartups

Nov 11, 2019

Needs advice

I'm trying to set up an ideally "no- code" way to have a backend of 3 different tables and be able to find a value in table #3 (contains businesses & cities) by first finding a record in table #1 (7,000+ zip codes) that corresponds to a city (table #2 has the unique cities), and then finding which businesses are located in these cities ( in this specific, original zipcode lookup). And return the business and a description via an API to a front-end results page, which happens to be a WordPress page - but doesn't need to be. I've tried Airtable's API, AirPress (a finicky WordPress plugin for Airtable's API), and I've looked at Sheetsu and a similar spreadsheet as backend and a simple API. I run into the issue where they work fine when you just need to query 1 table, but when you need to use the result from that query in another query to a different table. I'm back in SQL land - where sure it could be done with SQLite - needing to probably create an intersection table or a JOIN and build an API off of that. Is there a way to accomplish what I want without going back to SQL queries and some API?

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Ratan
Ratan

QA Manager at Verisys

Feb 12, 2020

Needs advice

I have a team that is not heavy on programming skills. I am looking for a load testing tool that is easy to use. Preferably, the tool should be a record and playback tool without much programming. Also, the tool should be able to test APIs apart from web-based applications. What tool should I opt for?

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Detailed Comparison

Loader.io
Loader.io
Airtable
Airtable

Loader.io is a free load testing service that allows you to stress test your web-apps/apis with thousands of concurrent connections.

Working with Airtable is as fast and easy as editing a spreadsheet. But only Airtable is backed by the power of a full database, giving you rich features far beyond what a spreadsheet can offer.

Share Graphs and Stats- anytime, anywhere;GUI or API- load test how you want
Attachments;Link Tables;Fully mobile;Instant collaboration;Easily undo mistakes
Statistics
Stacks
71
Stacks
1.0K
Followers
173
Followers
890
Votes
18
Votes
40
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 9
    Easy to use
  • 6
    Free tier
  • 3
    Heroku add-on
Pros
  • 19
    Powerful and easy to use
  • 8
    Robust and dynamic
  • 6
    Quick UI Layer
  • 4
    Practical built in views
  • 3
    Robust API documentation
Integrations
cloudControl
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What are some alternatives to Loader.io, Airtable?

k6

k6

It is a developer centric open source load testing tool for testing the performance of your backend infrastructure. It’s built with Go and JavaScript to integrate well into your development workflow.

Locust

Locust

Locust is an easy-to-use, distributed, user load testing tool. Intended for load testing web sites (or other systems) and figuring out how many concurrent users a system can handle.

Gatling

Gatling

Gatling is a highly capable load testing tool. It is designed for ease of use, maintainability and high performance. Out of the box, Gatling comes with excellent support of the HTTP protocol that makes it a tool of choice for load testing any HTTP server. As the core engine is actually protocol agnostic, it is perfectly possible to implement support for other protocols. For example, Gatling currently also ships JMS support.

BlazeMeter

BlazeMeter

Simulate any user scenario for webapps, websites, mobile apps or web services. 100% Apache JMeter compatible. Scalable from 1 to 1,000,000+ concurrent users.<br>

Apache JMeter

Apache JMeter

It is open source software, a 100% pure Java application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance. It was originally designed for testing Web Applications but has since expanded to other test functions.

Sheetsu

Sheetsu

Use spreadsheet as your database. Give data to your users the nice way, directly from the tool you know. Without bothering webdeveloper.

RedLine13

RedLine13

It is a load testing platform that brings the low cost power of the cloud to JMeter and other open source load testing tools.

AWS Device Farm

AWS Device Farm

Run tests across a large selection of physical devices in parallel from various manufacturers with varying hardware, OS versions and form factors.

Flood IO

Flood IO

Performance testing with Flood increases customer satisfaction and confidence in your production apps and reduces business risk.

Sheety

Sheety

Power websites, apps, or whatever you like, all from a spreadsheet. Changes to your spreadsheet update your API in realtime.

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