When comparing Apache Usergrid 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 Apache Usergrid is ranked 9th. 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 Multiple SDKs
Usergrid has full SDKs for iOS, Android, and HTML5/JS but also node.js, Ruby on Rails, pure pure Ruby, server-side Java, .NET / Windows and PHP.
Pro Apache Cassandra
Pro Asset storage
Pro Supports OAuth 2.0
Pro Open Source
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.
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Con No longer maintained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.