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Apollo vs Kontena: What are the differences?
Apollo: GraphQL server for Express, Connect, Hapi, Koa and more. Build a universal GraphQL API on top of your existing REST APIs, so you can ship new application features fast without waiting on backend changes; Kontena: Docker Container Orchestration Platform Written in Ruby. Kontena is an open source container orchestration tool that makes it easy to deploy and manage containerized applications on your own servers.
Apollo and Kontena can be primarily classified as "Platform as a Service" tools.
Apollo and Kontena are both open source tools. Apollo with 7.53K GitHub stars and 935 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Kontena with 1.44K GitHub stars and 117 GitHub forks.
We wanted to save as much time as possible when writing our back-end, therefore Apollo was out of the question, we went for an auto-generated API instead. Hasura looked good in the beginning, but we wanted to retain the ability to add a few manual resolvers and modifications to auto-generated ones, which ruled out Hasura. Postgraphile with its Plug-In architecture was the right choice for us, we never regretted it!
Pros of Apollo
- From the creators of Meteor12
- Great documentation8
- Open source3
- Real time if use subscription2
Pros of Kontena
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Cons of Apollo
- File upload is not supported1
- Increase in complexity of implementing (subscription)1