Backand vs Retool
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Backand is a powerful backend-as-a-service for AngularJS that provides out-of-the-box social login, push notifications, Ionic integration and much more. | Retool is the fast way to build internal tools. Drag-and-drop our building blocks and connect them to your databases and APIs to build your own tools, instantly. Built by developers, for developers. Trusted by startups and Fortune 500s. |
Data Storage: Work with JSON models, complex as you like, and let Backand add or edit the data for you.;
REST API for any Database: Backand automatically generates a REST API for any database, including MySQL, PostgreSQL and MS SQL Server.;
Advanced Data Models: Backand lets you create sophisticated data models with a single click, including parent-child relationships, many-to-many.;
Server-Side Logic: Create sophisticated server-side actions code in a snap. Triggers and on-demand actions can launch JavaScript code, send emails or execute transactional SQL scripts.;
Security & User Management: Backand provides a rich set of out-of-the-box security and user management features, including social signup, email verification, role-based security, active directory integration and more.;
Integration to 3rd-party services: Backand comes pre-integrated with many popular tools and services. Backand provides web-hooks so that you can integrate your own.;
Web platforms: AngularJs and ionic.;
Hosting: Backand is fully-managed and runs in the cloud, including all of your server-side, front-end and database.;
| A complete set of
powerful building blocks; Connect to anything; Read or write data with queries; Deploy and share securely; Host on-premise; Revision history via Git; Fine-grained access controls & audit logs; SAML SSO and 2FA |
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