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Add to SafariWhen comparing Baasbox vs Para, 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 Para 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
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.
Pro Full-text search
Powered by Elasticsearch or Lucene.
Pro Modular
Para offers interfaces for persistence, search and caching. Easy to write your own plugins to implement any of these interfaces.
Pro Open source
Licensed under Apache 2.0.
Pro REST API
Exposes a REST API secured by AWS Signature Version 4.
Pro Multi-tenant
Each tenant has its own database table, search index, and cache.
Pro Integrated metrics
Each tenant receives its own complete metrics for all CRUD and REST operations.
Pro Resource permissions with 3rd party security integrations
Object-level permissions with authentication through LDAP and 3rd party providers such as Google, Facebook, etc.
Pro Easy to use
By far the easiest to use BaaS platform.
Cons
Con No JavaScript SDK
The JavaScript SDK is not yet released although it should be available in the near future.
Con No longer maintained
Last commit is from 2015.
Con No implementation of locking
Last-write-wins.
Con No support for Transaction Management
