PubNub vs Telepat: What are the differences?
What is PubNub? Build real-time apps quickly and scale them globally. PubNub makes it easy for you to add real-time capabilities to your apps, without worrying about the infrastructure. Build apps that allow your users to engage in real-time across mobile, browser, desktop and server.
What is Telepat? Real time data synchronization platform for modern API driven web&mobile apps. Telepat is an open-source backend stack, designed to deliver information and information updates in real-time to clients, while allowing for flexible deployment and simple scaling.
PubNub and Telepat can be categorized as "Realtime Backend / API" tools.
Some of the features offered by PubNub are:
- PubNub SDKs support over 50 of the most popular environments, including: iOS, Android, JavaScript, .NET, Java, Ruby, Python, PHP and many more.
- Data Push - Establish and maintain persistent socket connections to any device (mobile, browser, desktop and server) and push data to global audiences in less than ¼ of a second
- Presence - Automatically detect when users enter or leave your app and whether machines are online
On the other hand, Telepat provides the following key features:
- real-time sync
- query-able
- user auth
Telepat is an open source tool with 340 GitHub stars and 20 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Telepat's open source repository on GitHub.