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Google Cloud Pub/Sub vs Pusher: What are the differences?
Google Cloud Pub/Sub: Global service for real-time and reliable messaging and streaming data. Cloud Pub/Sub is a fully-managed real-time messaging service that allows you to send and receive messages between independent applications. You can leverage Cloud Pub/Sub’s flexibility to decouple systems and components hosted on Google Cloud Platform or elsewhere on the Internet; Pusher: Hosted APIs to build realtime apps with less code. Pusher is the category leader in delightful APIs for app developers building communication and collaboration features.
Google Cloud Pub/Sub and Pusher can be categorized as "Realtime Backend / API" tools.
According to the StackShare community, Pusher has a broader approval, being mentioned in 125 company stacks & 42 developers stacks; compared to Google Cloud Pub/Sub, which is listed in 75 company stacks and 17 developer stacks.
I am building an IoT application that will utilize connected air quality sensors to provide real-time indoor air quality in offices. I want to be able to share this data with a few different databases, etc.
Wondering if anyone has any advice on which real-time streaming API would be best for this sort of application, or even how I should think about it?
For IoT, we support MQTT along with websockets and SSE. The pattern you're suggesting that involves harvesting data from devices and soaking into a database is easy to achieve with one of the Ably integrations (Serverless functions/webhook) . Here are some tutorials to do things like this: https://ably.com/tutorials/reactor-event-zapier#step2-mqtt-ably
We use Pusher at www.justlearn.com. It works fine. When you reach more users, Pusher gets expensive. We use Pusher for live chat between users. Their software is easy to use. We have had issues with auth on Pusher.
Pros of Google Cloud Pub/Sub
- Easy to set-up and start with9
- A great choice for microservice architecture2
- Efficient and practical for complex systems2
Pros of Pusher
- An easy way to give customers realtime features55
- Websockets40
- Simple34
- Easy to get started with27
- Free plan25
- Heroku Add-on12
- Easy and fast to configure and to understand11
- JSON9
- Azure Add-on6
- Happy6
- Support5
- Push notification4
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Cons of Google Cloud Pub/Sub
- Need integration with stackdriver for monitoring2
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