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Falcor vs Tyk Cloud: What are the differences?
What is Falcor? A JavaScript library for efficient data fetching, created by Netflix. Falcor lets you represent all your remote data sources as a single domain model via a virtual JSON graph. You code the same way no matter where the data is, whether in memory on the client or over the network on the server.
What is Tyk Cloud? Open Source API Management. Tyk is a lightweight, open source API Gateway and enables you to control who accesses your API, when they access it and how they access it. Tyk will also record detailed analytics on how your users are interacting with your API and when things go wrong.
Falcor and Tyk Cloud can be categorized as "API" tools.
Some of the features offered by Falcor are:
- One Model Everywhere
- The Data is the API
- Bind to the Cloud
On the other hand, Tyk Cloud provides the following key features:
- API Management Dashboard
- API Analytics
- API Developer Portal
Falcor and Tyk Cloud are both open source tools. Falcor with 9.36K GitHub stars and 449 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Tyk Cloud with 4.6K GitHub stars and 616 GitHub forks.
Pros of Falcor
- Promotes microservices2
- Small API2
- Data is the API2
- One Model Everywhere2
- efficient data fetching1
- Bind to the Cloud1
- Virtual JSON Resource1
- Simple1
- Backed by Netflix1
- JSON Graph1
Pros of Tyk Cloud
- Full featured10
- Easy to install5
- Great Performance5
- Flexible4
- Easy to use2
- Better Oauth integration2
- Good value2
- Great support & advice1
