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Gun vs Pushpin: What are the differences?
Gun: Self-hosted Firebase. GUN is a realtime, decentralized, embedded, graph database engine; Pushpin: Reverse proxy for realtime web services. Pushpin is a reverse proxy server that makes it easy to build realtime web services. The project is unique among realtime push solutions in that it is designed to address the needs of API creators.
Gun and Pushpin belong to "Realtime Backend / API" category of the tech stack.
Gun and Pushpin are both open source tools. Gun with 10.3K GitHub stars and 640 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Pushpin with 2.53K GitHub stars and 96 GitHub forks.
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What is Gun?
GUN is a realtime, decentralized, embedded, graph database engine.
What is Pushpin?
Pushpin is a reverse proxy server that makes it easy to build realtime web services. The project is unique among realtime push solutions in that it is designed to address the needs of API creators.
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What are some alternatives to Gun and Pushpin?
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.