Ask HN: Good Parse alternatives?

Posted by Nemant on Thursday January 28, 2016 @09:23PM
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Any recommendations on Parse alternatives? Firebase is very limited (just data) and I can't find anything that would match Parse in terms of ease of use and features.

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Re:Ask HN: Good Parse alternatives? by EuAndreh on Friday January 29, 2016 @02:33AM (#10993994)

I'd suggest using PouchDB[0] if on a web client, and Cloudant [1] as the backend. Spin up a simple heroku app using Superlogin[2] and you have full Auth, an offline database, sync and now the possibility of conflicts resolution.

If developing on mobile clients just use Cloudant Sync for iOS[3] or Android[4].

[0]: http://pouchdb.com/

[1]: https://cloudant.com/

[2]: https://github.com/colinskow/superlogin

[3]: https://github.com/cloudant/CDTDatastore

[4]: https://github.com/cloudant/sync-android

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Re:Ask HN: Good Parse alternatives? by Startups411 on Thursday January 28, 2016 @11:39PM (#10993531)

This seems to be a meaty thread on the topic https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10991729

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Re:Ask HN: Good Parse alternatives? by manidoraisamy on Saturday January 30, 2016 @04:11AM (#11001196)

You might want to look at app engine as well. Google just published an article on running Parse on app engine - https://medium.com/google-cloud/deploying-parse-server-to-go...

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Re:Ask HN: Good Parse alternatives? by marknadal on Friday January 29, 2016 @11:16AM (#10996032)

GUN[0] does realtime state synchronization, is offline-first, and is a graph database (key/value, relational, document, etc). It does NOT have other features of Parse though, like a web client, built in permissions, etc.

[0] https://github.com/amark/gun

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Re:Ask HN: Good Parse alternatives? by tuyguntn on Friday January 29, 2016 @09:08AM (#10995216)

Apache Usergrid[0] (used by Globo.com, Apigee and others)

Kinto (Mozilla Services)

[0] - http://usergrid.apache.org/

[1] - https://github.com/Kinto/kinto/

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Re:Ask HN: Good Parse alternatives? by gorkemcetin on Friday January 29, 2016 @05:41PM (#10999111)

Firebase: Only DB, no push. Deployd: Open source BaaS (no push). Countly: Push and analytics (also open source). Usergrid: Last time I checked, didnt have push. Kinvey: BaaS but quite complex to understand. Backendless: Completely free, thus reminds me of Parse.

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Re:Ask HN: Good Parse alternatives? by jeffreyawest on Saturday January 30, 2016 @02:14AM (#11000914)

Usergrid now has push for Apple, Google and Windows and scales to >10k/s which is probably more than most apps need, but good to have when you need it. We are finalizing our 2.1.0 Apache release right now.

Disclaimer: I've been leading Usergrid development for the last year.

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Re:Ask HN: Good Parse alternatives? by wirddin on Friday January 29, 2016 @04:50AM (#10994376)

Twitter's Fabric : https://get.fabric.io/

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Re:Ask HN: Good Parse alternatives? by bkovacev on Friday January 29, 2016 @07:28AM (#10994808)

Firebase? https://www.firebase.com/

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Re:Ask HN: Good Parse alternatives? by Nemant on Friday January 29, 2016 @11:24AM (#10996108)

Just provides a DB, not much more after that (push notifications, "cloud code", etc)

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Re:Ask HN: Good Parse alternatives? by alc90 on Friday January 29, 2016 @02:31AM (#10993988)

Also if you're interested in a mBaaS - Kinvey is pretty similar with Parse

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Re:Ask HN: Good Parse alternatives? by sathley on Thursday January 28, 2016 @11:28PM (#10993496)

check out http://appacitive.com

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