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Ask HN: Good Parse alternatives?

13 pointsNemant12 comments

Any recommendations on Parse alternatives? Firebase is very limited (just data) and I can't find anything that would match Parse in terms of ease of use and features.

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I'd suggest using PouchDB[0] if on a web client, and Cloudant [1] as the backend. Spin up a simple heroku app using Superlogin[2] and you have full Auth, an offline database, sync and now the possibility of conflicts resolution.

If developing on mobile clients just use Cloudant Sync for iOS[3] or Android[4].

[0]: http://pouchdb.com/

[1]: https://cloudant.com/

[2]: https://github.com/colinskow/superlogin

[3]: https://github.com/cloudant/CDTDatastore

[4]: https://github.com/cloudant/sync-android

This seems to be a meaty thread on the topic https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10991729

You might want to look at app engine as well. Google just published an article on running Parse on app engine - https://medium.com/google-cloud/deploying-parse-server-to-go...

GUN[0] does realtime state synchronization, is offline-first, and is a graph database (key/value, relational, document, etc). It does NOT have other features of Parse though, like a web client, built in permissions, etc.

[0] https://github.com/amark/gun

Apache Usergrid[0] (used by Globo.com, Apigee and others)

Kinto (Mozilla Services)

[0] - http://usergrid.apache.org/

[1] - https://github.com/Kinto/kinto/

Firebase: Only DB, no push. Deployd: Open source BaaS (no push). Countly: Push and analytics (also open source). Usergrid: Last time I checked, didnt have push. Kinvey: BaaS but quite complex to understand. Backendless: Completely free, thus reminds me of Parse.

Usergrid now has push for Apple, Google and Windows and scales to >10k/s which is probably more than most apps need, but good to have when you need it. We are finalizing our 2.1.0 Apache release right now.

Disclaimer: I've been leading Usergrid development for the last year.

Twitter's Fabric : https://get.fabric.io/

Firebase? https://www.firebase.com/

Just provides a DB, not much more after that (push notifications, "cloud code", etc)

Also if you're interested in a mBaaS - Kinvey is pretty similar with Parse

check out http://appacitive.com

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