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deepstream.io vs Horizon: What are the differences?
What is deepstream.io? A scalable server for realtime webapps. Scalable Server for Realtime Web Apps with JSON structures that can be read, manipulated and listened to, messages that can be sent to one or more subscribers, and request response workflows, between two clients or servers.
What is Horizon? *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.
deepstream.io and Horizon can be categorized as "Realtime Backend / API" tools.
deepstream.io and Horizon are both open source tools. Horizon with 6.77K GitHub stars and 389 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than deepstream.io with 6.14K GitHub stars and 315 GitHub forks.
Pros of deepstream.io
- Real-time8
- RethinkDB8
- Node.js6
- Websockets6
- WebRTC5
- Datasync3
- Open source3
- Android1
- Java1