Parse vs Simperium: What are the differences?

What is Parse? The complete mobile app platform. With Parse, you can add a scalable and powerful backend in minutes and launch a full-featured app in record time without ever worrying about server management. We offer push notifications, social integration, data storage, and the ability to add rich custom logic to your app’s backend with Cloud Code.

What is Simperium? Move data everywhere it's needed, instantly and automatically. Simperium is a new kind of data layer. As your app reads and writes data, Simperium circulates that data everywhere it's needed. You add a Simperium library to your app and initialize it. This library keeps a persistent connection to the Simperium hosted service. The Simperium libraries and service work together to efficiently move data around for your users.

Parse can be classified as a tool in the "Mobile Backend" category, while Simperium is grouped under "Realtime Backend / API".

Some of the features offered by Parse are:

• Store basic data types, locations, photos
• Update over the air
• Data browser lets you manage, search, and update content without writing a single line of code

On the other hand, Simperium provides the following key features:

• Data transparently moves across mobile, web, and desktop versions of your app
• Your users can read and write data even when they're offline
• Multiple users can collaborate with the same data at the same time

"Easy setup" is the primary reason why developers consider Parse over the competitors, whereas "Simple and useful data model" was stated as the key factor in picking Simperium.