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Faye vs Syncano: What are the differences?
What is Faye? Simple pub/sub messaging for the web. Faye is a set of tools for simple publish-subscribe messaging between web clients. It ships with easy-to-use message routing servers for Node.js and Rack applications, and clients that can be used on the server and in the browser.
What is Syncano? a highly flexible real-time backend as a service. Syncano is a backend platform to build powerful real-time apps more efficiently. Integrate with any API, minimize boilerplate code and control your data - all from one place.
Faye and Syncano belong to "Realtime Backend / API" category of the tech stack.
"Simple" is the top reason why over 5 developers like Faye, while over 11 developers mention "Admin GUI" as the leading cause for choosing Syncano.
Faye is an open source tool with 4.2K GitHub stars and 386 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Faye's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Faye
- Simple6
- Open source5
- Node.js5
- Real-time2
- Scalable2
- Ruby (EventMachine)2
- BAYEUX Protocol (not proprietary)2
Pros of Syncano
- Admin GUI12
- Data modeling12
- BaaS10
- Scalability9
- Great customer support8
- Great pricing8
- Real-time data sync7
- Access management6
- Easy setup5
- Great app development platform5
- Cloud scripts1