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Mashape vs Apiman: What are the differences?
What is Mashape? Open Source API Platform for a Cloud Native World. Kong is a scalable, open source API Layer (also known as an API Gateway, or API Middleware). Kong controls layer 4 and 7 traffic and is extended through Plugins, which provide extra functionality and services beyond the core platform.
What is Apiman? Open Source API Management. It provides an easy way for API/service providers to use a web UI to define service contracts for their APIs, apply these contracts across multiple APIs, and control role-based user access and API versioning.
Mashape and Apiman belong to "API Hub and Management" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Mashape are:
- Logging: Log requests and responses to your system over TCP, UDP or to disk
- OAuth2.0: Add easily an OAuth2.0 authentication to your APIs
- Monitoring: Live monitoring provides key load and performance server metrics
On the other hand, Apiman provides the following key features:
- Govern Your APIs
- Rich Management Layer
- Easily Embeddable
Apiman is an open source tool with 516 GitHub stars and 249 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Apiman's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Apiman
Pros of Mashape
- Built-in billing layer for API owners7
- Integrated API documentation and test console6
- Issue tracking for API owners6
- User management for API owners4
- Easy setup3
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