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Horizon vs Contential: What are the differences?

Developers describe Horizon as "A realtime, open-source JavaScript back end from RethinkDB *". Horizon provides a complete backend that makes it dramatically simpler to build, deploy, manage, and scale engaging JavaScript web and mobile apps. Horizon is extensible, integrates with the Node.js stack, and allows building modern, arbitrarily complex applications. On the other hand, *Contential** is detailed as "A blazing fast data store allowing you to store your data across multiple regions". It is a blazing fast data store allowing you to store your data across multiple regions, and access it in milliseconds with auto-generated GraphQL schema and built-in text search.

Horizon and Contential can be categorized as "Realtime Backend / API" tools.

Horizon is an open source tool with 6.76K GitHub stars and 391 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Horizon's open source repository on GitHub.

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What is Contential?

It is a blazing fast data store allowing you to store your data across multiple regions, and access it in milliseconds with auto-generated GraphQL schema and built-in text search.

What is Horizon?

Horizon provides a complete backend that makes it dramatically simpler to build, deploy, manage, and scale engaging JavaScript web and mobile apps. Horizon is extensible, integrates with the Node.js stack, and allows building modern, arbitrarily complex applications.

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