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Gun vs NATS: What are the differences?
Developers describe Gun as "Self-hosted Firebase". GUN is a realtime, decentralized, embedded, graph database engine. On the other hand, NATS is detailed as "Lightweight publish-subscribe & distributed queueing messaging system". Unlike traditional enterprise messaging systems, NATS has an always-on dial tone that does whatever it takes to remain available. This forms a great base for building modern, reliable, and scalable cloud and distributed systems.
Gun and NATS belong to "Realtime Backend / API" category of the tech stack.
Gun is an open source tool with 10.3K GitHub stars and 640 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Gun's open source repository on GitHub.
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- Small size0
- Real time0
Pros of NATS
- Fastest pub-sub system out there22
- Rock solid16
- Easy to grasp12
- Light-weight4
- Easy, Fast, Secure4
- Robust Security Model2
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Cons of NATS
- Persistence with Jetstream supported2
- No Order1
- No Persistence1
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What is Gun?
GUN is a realtime, decentralized, embedded, graph database engine.
What is NATS?
Unlike traditional enterprise messaging systems, NATS has an always-on dial tone that does whatever it takes to remain available. This forms a great base for building modern, reliable, and scalable cloud and distributed systems.
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What are some alternatives to Gun and NATS?
Firebase
Firebase is a cloud service designed to power real-time, collaborative applications. Simply add the Firebase library to your application to gain access to a shared data structure; any changes you make to that data are automatically synchronized with the Firebase cloud and with other clients within milliseconds.
Socket.IO
It enables real-time bidirectional event-based communication. It works on every platform, browser or device, focusing equally on reliability and speed.
ws
It is a simple to use, blazing fast, and thoroughly tested WebSocket client and server implementation.
Pusher
Pusher is the category leader in delightful APIs for app developers building communication and collaboration features.
Google Cloud Pub/Sub
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.