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Faye vs Gun: What are the differences?
Developers describe Faye as "Simple pub/sub messaging for the web". Faye is a set of tools for simple publish-subscribe messaging between web clients. It ships with easy-to-use message routing servers for Node.js and Rack applications, and clients that can be used on the server and in the browser. On the other hand, Gun is detailed as "Self-hosted Firebase". GUN is a realtime, decentralized, embedded, graph database engine.
Faye and Gun can be categorized as "Realtime Backend / API" tools.
Faye and Gun are both open source tools. It seems that Gun with 10.3K GitHub stars and 640 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Faye with 4.2K GitHub stars and 386 GitHub forks.
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- Simple6
- Open source5
- Node.js5
- Real-time2
- Scalable2
- Ruby (EventMachine)2
- BAYEUX Protocol (not proprietary)2
Pros of Gun
- Open source0
- Small size0
- Real time0
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What is Faye?
Faye is a set of tools for simple publish-subscribe messaging between web clients. It ships with easy-to-use message routing servers for Node.js and Rack applications, and clients that can be used on the server and in the browser.
What is Gun?
GUN is a realtime, decentralized, embedded, graph database engine.
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What are some alternatives to Faye and Gun?
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Amazon EC2
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Firebase
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Amazon Web Services (AWS)
It is a comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally.