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Google Cloud Pub/Sub vs SignalR: 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; SignalR: A new library for ASP.NET developers that makes developing real-time web functionality easy. SignalR allows bi-directional communication between server and client. Servers can now push content to connected clients instantly as it becomes available. SignalR supports Web Sockets, and falls back to other compatible techniques for older browsers. SignalR includes APIs for connection management (for instance, connect and disconnect events), grouping connections, and authorization.
Google Cloud Pub/Sub and SignalR belong to "Realtime Backend / API" category of the tech stack.
SignalR is an open source tool with 7.75K GitHub stars and 2.19K GitHub forks. Here's a link to SignalR's open source repository on GitHub.
9GAG, Evernote, and Resultados Digitais are some of the popular companies that use Google Cloud Pub/Sub, whereas SignalR is used by simplement-e, Jet.com, and NRGSoft. Google Cloud Pub/Sub has a broader approval, being mentioned in 75 company stacks & 17 developers stacks; compared to SignalR, which is listed in 22 company stacks and 18 developer stacks.
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 SignalR
- Supports .NET server29
- Real-time22
- Free16
- Fallback to SSE, forever frame, long polling15
- WebSockets14
- Simple10
- Open source8
- JSON8
- Ease of use7
- Cool5
- Azure0
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Cons of Google Cloud Pub/Sub
- Need integration with stackdriver for monitoring2
Cons of SignalR
- Expertise hard to get2
- Requires jQuery2
- Weak iOS and Android support1
- Big differences between ASP.NET and Core versions1
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