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Faye vs Streamdata.io: What are the differences?
Faye: 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; Streamdata.io: Efficiently Turn APIs into Real-time Experiences. Streamdata.io is a real-time cache proxy allowing you to poll JSON REST APIs and push updates to clients. Streamdata.io also keeps a history of modifications that occur on the data between two pollings. This way, streamdata.io is able to give you the list of modifications which happened since last time you fetched the data.
Faye and Streamdata.io belong to "Realtime Backend / API" category of the tech stack.
Faye is an open source tool with 4.2K GitHub stars and 386 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Faye's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Faye
- Simple6
- Open source5
- Node.js5
- Real-time2
- Scalable2
- Ruby (EventMachine)2
- BAYEUX Protocol (not proprietary)2
Pros of Streamdata.io
- Best way to stream a static API1
- The quickest way to turn any existing API into stream1