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Gun vs SignalR: What are the differences?

Gun: Self-hosted Firebase. GUN is a realtime, decentralized, embedded, graph database engine; SignalR: A new library for ASP.NET developers that makes developing real-time web functionality easy. SignalR allows bi-directional communication between server and client. Servers can now push content to connected clients instantly as it becomes available. SignalR supports Web Sockets, and falls back to other compatible techniques for older browsers. SignalR includes APIs for connection management (for instance, connect and disconnect events), grouping connections, and authorization.

Gun and SignalR can be categorized as "Realtime Backend / API" tools.

Gun and SignalR are both open source tools. Gun with 10.3K GitHub stars and 640 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than SignalR with 7.75K GitHub stars and 2.19K GitHub forks.

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Open source
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Small size
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Real time

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Supports .NET server
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Real-time
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Free
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Fallback to SSE, forever frame, long polling
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WebSockets
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Simple
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Open source
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Ease of use
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JSON
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Cool
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Expertise hard to get
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Requires jQuery
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Weak iOS and Android support
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Big differences between ASP.NET and Core versions

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What is Gun?

GUN is a realtime, decentralized, embedded, graph database engine.

What is SignalR?

SignalR allows bi-directional communication between server and client. Servers can now push content to connected clients instantly as it becomes available. SignalR supports Web Sockets, and falls back to other compatible techniques for older browsers. SignalR includes APIs for connection management (for instance, connect and disconnect events), grouping connections, and authorization.

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What are some alternatives to Gun and SignalR?

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.

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.

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