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Heroku vs Parse-Server: What are the differences?
What is Heroku? Build, deliver, monitor and scale web apps and APIs with a trail blazing developer experience. Heroku is a cloud application platform – a new way of building and deploying web apps. Heroku lets app developers spend 100% of their time on their application code, not managing servers, deployment, ongoing operations, or scaling.
What is Parse-Server? Parse-compatible API server module for Node/Express. A Parse.com API compatible router package for Express. Read the announcement blog post here: http://blog.parse.com/announcements/introducing-parse-server-and-the-database-migration-tool/. Read the migration guide here: https://parse.com/docs/server/guide#migrating.
Heroku can be classified as a tool in the "Platform as a Service" category, while Parse-Server is grouped under "Platform as a Service Tools".
"Easy deployment" is the primary reason why developers consider Heroku over the competitors, whereas "Open Source" was stated as the key factor in picking Parse-Server.
Parse-Server is an open source tool with 16.5K GitHub stars and 4.18K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Parse-Server's open source repository on GitHub.
StackShare, Heroku, and Product Hunt are some of the popular companies that use Heroku, whereas Parse-Server is used by Rydite, NorthPointe Church, and ParseGround. Heroku has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1504 company stacks & 965 developers stacks; compared to Parse-Server, which is listed in 9 company stacks and 13 developer stacks.
Pros of Heroku
- Easy deployment703
- Free for side projects459
- Huge time-saver374
- Simple scaling348
- Low devops skills required261
- Easy setup190
- Add-ons for almost everything174
- Beginner friendly153
- Better for startups150
- Low learning curve133
- Postgres hosting48
- Easy to add collaborators41
- Faster development30
- Awesome documentation24
- Simple rollback19
- Focus on product, not deployment19
- Natural companion for rails development15
- Easy integration15
- Great customer support12
- GitHub integration8
- Painless & well documented6
- No-ops6
- I love that they make it free to launch a side project4
- Free4
- Great UI3
- Just works3
- PostgreSQL forking and following2
- MySQL extension2
- Security1
- Able to host stuff good like Discord Bot1
- Sec0
Pros of Parse-Server
- Open Source13
- Well documented7
- Easy setup, easy api, Fast,more platforms,realtime4
- No vendor lock-in3
- JSON2
- Backed by People2
- Friendly contributor community1
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Cons of Heroku
- Super expensive27
- Not a whole lot of flexibility9
- No usable MySQL option7
- Storage7
- Low performance on free tier5
- 24/7 support is $1,000 per month2
Cons of Parse-Server
- No guarantee (comes as is)1
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