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What are the best Parse alternatives for Android app development?
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Best Parse alternatives for Android app development
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Firebase
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Couchbase
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Kinvey
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Firebase
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Firebase
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Well documented
The documentation and quick start guides are informative and easy to learn.
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Google has a flaky history with service support
For App Engine Google shifted functionality, increased prices and overcharged. They kill or effectively de-emphasize projects at will. This creates a risk of another parse migration. The open source parse is more reliable as you can switch vendors easily.
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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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Closed source
It's not possible to host your own server, making it harder to tweak.
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Trustworthy service
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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Not easy to store sensitive data
In order to store sensitive data safely on Firebase, you first have to encrypt it. But by storing encrypted data on Firebase, you can't query that data easily unless you use something like IQrypt
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Tutorials available for transitioning from Parse
There are free courses on Udacity made by Google for Parse users who want to migrate to Firebase.
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No data sharing
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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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Back4app
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Back4app
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Back4app
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Free plan
Free plans available.
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Parse framework
Only Parse framework is available now for coding.
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No vendor lock in
The user is not a hostage and can migrate the application to other hosting service whenever they want.
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Kinvey
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Kinvey
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Kinvey
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Simple and seamless user registration
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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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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Asynchronous uploading of files
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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Very easy to setup
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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BagelDB
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Kuzzle
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Kuzzle
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Kuzzle
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Realtime through filters
You do not connect to classic rooms but to search filters and can be warned of changes on permanent storage or volatile one.
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Young project
Kuzzle is (as of february 18th, 2016) in beta version.
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Multiprotocol
Supports REST, WebSockets and MQ protocols.
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No hosted version
Kuzzle has no hosted version. In order to use it, you have to install it to a remote machine. This can be cost-effective but it also adds overhead because you will have to take care of the hosting and backend infrastructure yourself.
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Android SDK
A fully documented android SDK exists.
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Can be hosted everywhere
Using Docker, Vagrant or installing it by hands in 4 or 5 simple steps, you can host it virtually anywhere.
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Open Source
Kuzzle is open source and it's released under the Apache 2 License.
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Javascript SDK
A fully documented javascript SDK exists
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Good for sensitive data
Kuzzle can be hosted on your very own server so that you can keep sensitives data under your control.
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Persistent storage
By using ElasticSearch, Kuzzle allow you to use all its power.
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Baasbox
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Baasbox
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Baasbox
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Easy to deploy
Deploying BaasBox is very simple, and the documentation on their site is very helpful and easy to understand.
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No JavaScript SDK
The JavaScript SDK is not yet released although it should be available in the near future.
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Self hosted and hosted options
You can choose to either download and install Baasbox on your own server, or use their hosted solution.
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Kinto
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Kinto
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Kinto
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Open Source
Kinto is released under Apache v2, which is one of the most flexible licenses.
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No hosted version
In order to use kinto you have to download it and host it on your own server infrastructure. While it does help you avoid outsourcing your data to a third-party, it also adds the overhead of having to maintain a backend for your app.
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Good for sensitive data
Since Kinto is a self-hosted solution, it can be used to store sensitive data (emails, financial data etc...) safely, since only the developer has access to the backend.
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Not as usable as Parse
Parse had several SDKs available which made it a breeze to integrate it with any platform that you wanted.
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Fined-grained permissions
Allows to share individual or collection of records for read or write operations.
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Push notification support
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File attachments on records
Using the kinto-attachment plugin, the server can attach files to records (hosted by server or Amazon S3)
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Backed by Mozilla
Mozilla uses it in production to synchronize security settings for Firefox. This means that the product should have adequate support for an extended period of time due to Mozillas use of it.
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Kumulos
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Kumulos
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Granular permissions
For companies or large teams of developers, where there are multiple projects being worked on at once, you can choose permissions for any developer and decide who gains access to each app on the backend.
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Weak documentation
Kumulos is lacking in the documentation department. A lot of things are explained in just a few sentences, with many things even being absent entirely.
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Specs
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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Ideal for app development agencies
White label-able with the agency brand, multi-tenant allowing all apps to be managed through one view, but a filtered permission based view for each client.
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SashiDo
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SashiDo
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Various hosting regions
You can choose between US and EU region for hosting in order to be closer to your clients.
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