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When comparing Parse vs Baasbox, the Slant community recommends Baasbox for most people. In the question“What are the best self-hosted BaaS (backend-as-a-service) providers?” Baasbox is ranked 4th while Parse is ranked 8th. The most important reason people chose Baasbox is:

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

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Pros

Pro
Free plan

Parse offers unlimited API calls (max of 30req/sec), 1 million pushed and analytics for free.

Pro
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).

Pro
Simple and seamless user registration

User registration with Parse 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.

Pro
Extremely easy to setup

Setting up a backend for an app with Parse 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.

Pro
Great documentation

Parse has excellent documentation. Everything is thoroughly explained and all parts of the documentation are complete. It's actually very helpful for both beginners and advanced users alike.

Pro
Easy to deploy

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

Pro
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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Cons

Con
Abandoned

Parse has been discontinued and will not be available anymore.

Con
Parse.com is shutting down

Facebook decided to shut down Parse.com. It will be fully retired on January 28th, 2017.

Con
There can be downtimes

There have been several reports that it's not unlikely for Parse to go down several minutes almost every day. This can be very frustrating for both developers and users who are using apps built on Parse.