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Pushpin vs Appbase: What are the differences?
Pushpin: Reverse proxy for realtime web services. Pushpin is a reverse proxy server that makes it easy to build realtime web services. The project is unique among realtime push solutions in that it is designed to address the needs of API creators; Appbase: Offers a fully managed environment for all your search needs. It is a hosted realtime DB with RESTful APIs and supporting libraries in JS, NodeJS and Go.
Pushpin and Appbase can be primarily classified as "Realtime Backend / API" tools.
Some of the features offered by Pushpin are:
- Supports HTTP streaming, HTTP long-polling, and WebSockets.
- Clients communicate using your API contract. Pushpin is a server-side implementation detail.
- Since Pushpin is a proxy server, the backend can be written in any language.
On the other hand, Appbase provides the following key features:
- JSON data model
- Simple cluster scaling
- Webhooks integration
Pushpin is an open source tool with 2.56K GitHub stars and 97 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Pushpin's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Appbase
Pros of Pushpin
- Open source3
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Cons of Appbase
Cons of Pushpin
- Worst community support1