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Kinto vs Baasbox

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When comparing Kinto vs Baasbox, the Slant community recommends Baasbox for most people. In the question“What are the best alternatives to Firebase?” Baasbox is ranked 6th while Kinto is ranked 11th. 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

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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.

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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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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
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.