Firebase Alternatives – Top 10 Competitors

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Firebase

Firebase continues to innovate and dominate the backend as a service (BaaS) market. It’s grown so much that it has become a key component of Google’s mobile strategy. In the past, I’ve been an enthusiastic Firebase user, but my concerns about its complexity and cost have led me to explore other cloud alternatives. While it offers an increasingly sophisticated array of services for many kinds of development requirements, it’s not always the simplest, fastest, or most affordable option. The article Reasons Not to Use Firebase also made me more aware of the risks of using Firebase.

#Developer Tools #App Development #Backend As A Service 248 social mentions

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Back4App

Back4app is the world’s most popular Parse hosting platform. It provides a fully managed backend featuring automated provisioning and scaling of Parse Server applications, backup and recovery, 24/7 monitoring and alerting, web-based management tools and support, and more. The pros of Back4app are pretty much the same as Parse along, and it comes with many other additional features like a user-friendly dashboard, the ability to scale app and support. The downside of this platform is the lack of good documentation and non-standardized UI inside its docs’ page.

#Backend As A Service #Mobile Backend #Low Code 1 social mentions

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Kinvey

Kinvey is a fully-integrated, secure, and HIPAA compliant serverless app development platform that helps enterprises and developers launch successful & engaging mobile apps and entire digital businesses. It gives you the freedom to use the frontend SDK of your choice while still providing virtually any backend feature you might need. Some of its key features include standards-based open architecture, no cloud lock-in, great docs and open source SDKs, 86 percent faster release cycles, complete set of tools to deliver high quality, immersive experiences, and more. Its major downside is its high costs.

#Developer Tools #Realtime Backend / API #Backend As A Service

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Backendless

Backendless is a highly scalable mobile Backend-as-a-Service (mBaaS) platform providing gazillion of features, including user authentication, live audio and video streaming, message filtering, push notifications, auto-scalability, data persistence, file storage, geo-location, cloud-code, analytics, and custom business logic. It has it all what you need to build awesome mobile apps without worrying about servers. There are several shortcomings of this platform, which include conditional message delivery, limited free version, limited resources of the server (which may affect the performance), and partially limited possibilities of development, which makes it difficult to perform the tasks that require complex server logic.

#Databases #NoSQL Databases #Relational Databases 21 social mentions

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Kuzzle

Kuzzle is a ready-to-use, on-premises backend platform designed to power and unify innovative applications for web, mobile, and IoT. A unique proposition based on Time-to-market (TOM) reduction of digital products by 40 percent and increase Return on investment (ROI) on innovation cycles. The Kuzzle backend is an open source solution that includes a scalable server, a multi-protocol API, an administration console and a set of plugin engines that provide advanced functionalities, including real-time pub/sub, blazing fast search, and geospatial queries.

#Developer Tools #App Development #Backend As A Service 2 social mentions

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PubNub

Pubnub IoT Device Control Real-time updates Storage & Playback Stream Controller Push Notifications Analytics Access Management

#Mobile Push Messaging #Cloud Infrastructure #Mobile App Tools 1 social mentions

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Kumulos

Kumulos is a secure, easy-to-use, and powerful mobile app performance management platform trusted by thousands of app developers across the globe. It lets you easily link your client-side mobile app to its backend cloud-based storage, setting you free from the hassle of managing your own backend infrastructure. One of its noticeable features is granular permissions, which is a boon for mobile app development companies. However, its downside is its weak documentation.

#Realtime Backend / API #Mobile Push Messaging #Error Tracking

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GameSparks

Game Sparks is a cloud-based backend development platform for gaming developers, which helps them build their server-side components without ever having to set up and run a server. What makes this platform so impressive is the fact that it’s completely open, scalable, and customizable, which makes it an ideal framework on which you can build your own backend capability and integrate with existing components. Additionally, its rich set of social and messaging features helps in increasing retention and engagement across your player base. So far, we haven’t found any cons of this platform on the internet.

#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine

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Hoodie

Hoodie is a simple, self-hosted, and Offline JavaScript backend which utilizes a no-backend technology that makes the lives of developers unbelievably easy and the process of web app development easy, speedy, and accessible. Some of its key features include a dream-code driven API which makes coding easy to grasp and understand, offline support which solves the major problem of connectivity dependence, no backend programming, Node.js integration, and more. And just like any other platform, it does have some cons as well, which include a very small developer community compared to other mobile backends and no access to Google docs when there’s no internet access.

#Developer Tools #Backend As A Service #App Development

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deployd

Deployd is an open source API design and deployment platform that empowers developers to hastily design, customize, and deploy an API for their application. It consists of a simple core library, with a modular API for extending your application. Deployd’s local-dev-friendly design makes it easy for you to quickly build and test APIs while you develop your user interface. Some of its highlighting features include secure access to database APIs directly from untrusted clients, user and session management, all APIs exposed over REST / HTTP, can be hosted by modern cloud platforms, support extension through node modules and npm, etc. Its major downside is that it only supports MongoDB.

#Developer Tools #App Development #Mobile Push Messaging