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Kinto – open-source alternative to Firebase and Parse

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Re: Kinto – open-source alternative to Firebase and Parse

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Post by metasean »

rbranson wrote: post #8

Isn't one of the main benefits of something like Firebase or Parse that you don't have to run it? It's nice that Kinto packages the stack together and provides plug-and-play APIs, but there's quite a bit of expertise and overhead operating a backend stack in production.

We're actually building an open-source alternative to services like Firebase and Parse. Ours is a fully peer-to-peer, real-time, graph database that doesn't require a lot of expertise or overhead, and is extensible.

http://gun.js.org/ / https://github.com/amark/gun / https://gitter.im/amark/gun

Re: Kinto – open-source alternative to Firebase and Parse

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Post by metasean »

sktrdie wrote: post #33

Does anybody know about databases that talk WebSockets rather than HTTP? For frontend apps it seems more logical to use WebSockets. Dealing with AJAX and understanding how to manage all of that on the client is still a huge dilemma in the React/Flux/Angular community.

GUN defaults to WebSockets - http://gun.js.org/ / https://github.com/amark/gun / https://gitter.im/amark/gun

Re: Kinto – open-source alternative to Firebase and Parse

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Post by ryanSrich »

cmsthrowit wrote: post #15
d0m wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In many industries (I.e. healthcare with HIPAA) you can't save your data in Firebase/Parse.

Parse is HIPAA certified.

What do you mean by HIPAA certified? Do you mean they'll sign a BAA? I don't think they will.

...and even if they did, the technical requirements of HIPAA compliance go much further than what Parse has to offer. You'd be much better suited building an application and hosting it on Catalyze[1], which covers every aspect of HIPAA compliance and has a HITRUST certification.

1. https://catalyze.io

Re: Kinto – open-source alternative to Firebase and Parse

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Post by maxwin »

Raed667 wrote: post #11

Looks impressive, but as a Parse user I think that the selling point are the open-sourced SDKs for lots of platforms. EDIT: this seems to be lacking a graphical administration panel as well.

Agree.They should at least have Android and ios SDK.

Re: Kinto – open-source alternative to Firebase and Parse

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Post by smithclay »

At this point, are there any major tech organizations who haven't jumped on the Backend-as-a-service bandwagon?

Kinto - Mozilla, CloudKit - Apple, Parse - Facebook, Firebase - Google, Azure Mobile Services - Microsoft, Mobile Hub - Amazon, Usergrid - Apache Foundation

... and many, many startups.

Re: Kinto – open-source alternative to Firebase and Parse

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Post by m1sta_ »

jondubois wrote: post #27
cmsthrowit wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Parse is HIPAA certified.

Regardless of this (assuming this is even true), I can't imagine that a finance company would want to store their data inside something like Firebase - The risk of data theft is too high and the value of the data is also too high. When you store everything in a big centralized system, the risk of that data being compromised increases greatly. Right now, the reason why no one is hacking Firebase is because the data wh…

All of the problems you recognise exist with 99% of large scale internal solutions too.

Re: Kinto – open-source alternative to Firebase and Parse

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Post by ndesaulniers »

Heh, so last week my buddy Tarek Ziade (one of the developers of this) and I were talking about this (kinto) project he's working on. I asked him what the meaning behind the name was. He said "you know the cloud from Dragon Ball. They don't use it as much in DBZ since they can fly."

I asked him if he meant "flying Nimbus?" Apparently, something was lost in translation (I'm in the US, he's in France).

Re: Kinto – open-source alternative to Firebase and Parse

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Post by rdtsc »

rbranson wrote: post #8

Isn't one of the main benefits of something like Firebase or Parse that you don't have to run it? It's nice that Kinto packages the stack together and provides plug-and-play APIs, but there's quite a bit of expertise and overhead operating a backend stack in production.

> Isn't one of the main benefits of something like Firebase or Parse that you don't have to run it?

But do I have to pay for it?

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