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The Best 2 of 8 OptionsWhy?

8 Options ConsideredPriceLicenseMulti Language Support
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Kuzzle
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Kinvey
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Couchbase
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Baasbox
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Kuzzle

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Ryan
Top Pro

Can be hosted everywhere

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Using Docker, Vagrant or installing it by hands in 4 or 5 simple steps, you can host it virtually anywhere.
Ryan
Top Pro

Realtime through filters

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You do not connect to classic rooms but to search filters and can be warned of changes on permanent storage or volatile one.
Ryan
Top Con

No hosted version

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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.
Sacha Stafyniak
Ryan
Top Con

Young project

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Kuzzle is (as of february 18th, 2016) in RC version.
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Kinvey

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Simple and seamless user registration

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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 do...
Ryan
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Asynchronous uploading of files

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When you want to upload a file, you just create an object and initialize the file upload to the server (this is done asynchronously).
Ryan
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Very easy to setup

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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...
Ryan
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The free plan isn't that good

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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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Couchbase

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Ability to run ad-hoc SQL like queries on realtime big data

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Couchbase N1QL allows native SQL processing over JSON data with high performance indexing for low latency queries at scale.
Ryan
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Open source

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Couchbase and Couchbase Mobile are open source and released under the Apache License.
Ryan
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Ability to make predefined fast queries

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With Couchbase you can make "Views" of data, which are practically predefined queries which are fetched with an O(1) algorithm.
Ryan
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No model mapper for Android

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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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Baasbox

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Easy to deploy

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Deploying BaasBox is very simple, and the documentation on their site is very helpful and easy to understand.
Ryan
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Self hosted and hosted options

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You can choose to either download and install Baasbox on your own server, or use their hosted solution.
Ryan
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No JavaScript SDK

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The JavaScript SDK is not yet released although it should be available in the near future.
Andrea
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No Hosted Version

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Baasbox has no hosted version.
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Back4app

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Endi Sukaj
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Open source

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Supported by the wide developer community.
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Strapi

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Pierre Burgy
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Admin panel

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Pierre Burgy
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Plugin system

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Pierre Burgy
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Authentication and permissions

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Pierre Burgy
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Content Management

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Pierre Burgy
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Extensible Node.js framework

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Pierre Burgy
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Open-source

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Gabriel Eduardo Bejarano Rojas
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no realtime

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kinto

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Ryan
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Good for sensitive data

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Since kinvey 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.
Ryan
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No hosted version

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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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Kumulos

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Ryan
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Granular permissions

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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.
Ryan
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Weak documentation

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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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