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Apollo vs Ninefold: What are the differences?
What is 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.
What is Ninefold? High Performance Australian Cloud Servers. Ninefold.com specialises in high performance, self managed, cloud based virtual servers for the Australian market including the Australian Federal Govt.
Apollo and Ninefold can be primarily classified as "Platform as a Service" tools.
"From the creators of Meteor" is the primary reason why developers consider Apollo over the competitors, whereas "High performance" was stated as the key factor in picking Ninefold.
Apollo is an open source tool with 7.53K GitHub stars and 935 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Apollo's open source repository on GitHub.
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 Ninefold
- Great value5
- High performance5
- Realtime Support4
- Easy deployment1
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Cons of Apollo
- File upload is not supported1
- Increase in complexity of implementing (subscription)1