Pulsar vs Pusher: What are the differences?
What is Pulsar? Distributed solution providing messaging and queuing for streaming data. Apache Pulsar is a distributed messaging solution developed and released to open source at Yahoo. Pulsar supports both pub-sub messaging and queuing in a platform designed for performance, scalability, and ease of development and operation.
What is Pusher? Hosted APIs to build realtime apps with less code. Pusher is the category leader in delightful APIs for app developers building communication and collaboration features.
Pulsar and Pusher belong to "Realtime Backend / API" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Pulsar are:
- Unified model supporting pub-sub messaging and queuing
- Easy scalability to millions of topics
- Native multi-datacenter replication
On the other hand, Pusher provides the following key features:
- Easily build scalable in-app notifications, chat, realtime graphs, geotracking and more in your web & mobile apps with our hosted pub/sub messaging API.
- Send programmable push notifications to iOS and Android devices with delivery and open rate tracking built in.
- Easily add 1-1 and group Chat to your web & mobile apps. Presence, message storage, rich media, notifications, typing indicators and more.
Pulsar is an open source tool with 3.77K GitHub stars and 862 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Pulsar's open source repository on GitHub.