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What is the best Mobile BaaS (Backend as a Service) for Android and iOS?
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Best Mobile BaaS (Backend as a Service) for Android and iOS
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Back4app
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Firebase
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Kinvey
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Marketcloud
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Back4app
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Back4app
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Back4app
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Uses MongoDB for the backend, which is not considered very safe by many
Back4App uses MongoDB as the database where data is stored. Mongo has been known to have issues with data corruption and data loss.
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Open source
Back4app is an open source BAAS and Backend generator.
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Smooth migration from Parse
Back4App offers a smooth migration for all former Parse users who wish to migrate their data now that Parse has announced that it will stop soon.
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Firebase
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Firebase
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Google support
Google acquired Firebase in Oct. 2014. This gives Firebase a degree of trustworthiness in their service and future support since they are backed by such a large company.
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Hosted
Firebase locks you in to Google's service; you can't run it on your own servers.
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Well documented
The documentation and quick start guides are informative and easy to learn.
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One command deploys and rollbacks
The content is deployed immediately through the Firebase CLI. Once it's uploaded, the content is served immediately. If you have made a mistake, you don't need to re-upload a new version, through the Admin dashboard you can easily rollback to a previous version.
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Kinvey
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Kinvey
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Kinvey
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Costs are eye-wateringly high
The free tier is not that generous and as soon as you trip the paid tier it costs you thousands a month.
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Asynchronous file uploading
When you want to upload a file, you just create an object and initialize the file upload to the server (this is done asynchronously).
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The free plan isn't that good
Kinvey's free plan only includes the first 1000 users for free, 5 million push notifications (which admittedly, is pretty nice) and 2GB of storage.
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Provides a straightforward way of connecting their services
Setting up a backend for an app with Kinvey is very easy and takes minutes. All you have to do is sign up and through their graphical interface follow all the steps, which boils down to creating tables and identifying the type of data that is being stored. Then you download the library, integrate it with your app and initialize the process with one single line.
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User registration is easy
User registration with Kinvey is pretty good and usually works without any problems. It's also very easy to use, you simply pass the username, password, email, etc. to the required method and register a callback that returns whether the registration was a success or a failure. Same thing is done for login and logout as well.
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Marketcloud
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Marketcloud
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Marketcloud
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Can be modified to be used not only for e-commerce
While it's true that it's built for creating e-commerce apps, every resource can be extended with metadata in order to use it for many use cases.
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It's not a true backend platform
Weak on a lot of the standard features you'd expect from a serious backend platform for serious mobile apps.
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E-commerce oriented
It's e-commerce oriented, so if you need to build an e-commerce mobile app you don't have to re-define common resources such as categories, brands, products, and carts.
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Crossplatform
Can be used for mobile app as well as web applications.
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Open Source version
On April 2019, an open source version was released on GitHub
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Couchbase
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Couchbase
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Couchbase
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Ability to make predefined fast queries
With Couchbase you can make "Views" of data, which are practically predefined queries which are fetched with an O(1) algorithm.
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No model mapper for Android
Couchbase does not have a model mapper for Android built-in and out of the box, instead you will have to write your own from scratch.
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Open source
Couchbase and Couchbase Mobile are open source and released under the Apache License.
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Kumulos
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White label
Can be fully rebranded, and you can give clients access to their own app portal so they can view stats on the app, edit content, and view monthly reports.
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US only hosting
Latency looks okay, but would be good to have hosting in Germany (or other parts of the world).
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Push Notifications:
from $50.00 per app per month.
Analytics and Reporting:
from $50.00 per month per app.
ASO:
from $50.00 per month per app.
Crash Reporting:
from $50.00 per month per app.
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Good client collaboration tool
They have a feature called the Client Portal. Great place to store project documentation, contacts, and the rest.
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Scales up really well
Easy to add many clients and many apps under the same platform. This means you can see everything you need for the app, all in one place
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Skygear
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Scalable backend
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Rich SDK support
Skygear has SDKs for iOS, Android, JavaScript.
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Supports Cloudcode
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Supports user authentication
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Raw data is exportable
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Parse
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