When comparing Kumulos vs Kinto, the Slant community recommends Kinto for most people. In the question“What are the best alternatives to Firebase?” Kinto is ranked 11th while Kumulos is ranked 14th. The most important reason people chose Kinto is:
Kinto is released under Apache v2, which is one of the most flexible licenses.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Good for mobile app development companies
Scales very well and useful console to view all their apps and its fully rebrandable which works great if you want to give the clients you are building apps for access to their own view of how it is performing. The fact that it comes with integrated push notifications and their automated monthly report is also great.
Pro 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.
Lets you rebrand the system, which works well if you want to give the clients you are building the app for access to their own view of how their app is performing.
Also like the fact it comes with the option of integrated push notifications and an automated executive summary report.
Pro Awesome support - a rarity these days. A support team that answers your questions and you can actually talk to them.
Have found response times to be pretty amazing, usually same day, often within an hour of logging a ticket.
Pro Multiple Services in one place
Having Crash, Analytics, Push, Content Management, ASO, Data Storage all in one place, from a single SDK
Pro Open Source
Kinto is released under Apache v2, which is one of the most flexible licenses.
Pro 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.
Pro Fined-grained permissions
Allows to share individual or collection of records for read or write operations.
Pro Push notification support
Pro File attachments on records
Using the kinto-attachment plugin, the server can attach files to records (hosted by server or Amazon S3)
Pro 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.
Cons
Con Weak documentation
In the last year they launched a dedicated Docs site that has made this a lot better. https://docs.kumulos.com/
Prior to that Kumulos was lacking in the documentation department. A lot of things are explained in just a few sentences.
Con 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.
Con Not as usable as Parse
Parse had several SDKs available which made it a breeze to integrate it with any platform that you wanted.
