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Faye vs NATS: What are the differences?

Faye: Simple pub/sub messaging for the web. Faye is a set of tools for simple publish-subscribe messaging between web clients. It ships with easy-to-use message routing servers for Node.js and Rack applications, and clients that can be used on the server and in the browser; NATS: Lightweight publish-subscribe & distributed queueing messaging system. Unlike traditional enterprise messaging systems, NATS has an always-on dial tone that does whatever it takes to remain available. This forms a great base for building modern, reliable, and scalable cloud and distributed systems.

Faye and NATS belong to "Realtime Backend / API" category of the tech stack.

"Simple" is the primary reason why developers consider Faye over the competitors, whereas "Fastest pub-sub system out there" was stated as the key factor in picking NATS.

Faye is an open source tool with 4.2K GitHub stars and 386 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Faye's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, NATS has a broader approval, being mentioned in 26 company stacks & 12 developers stacks; compared to Faye, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.

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Pros of Faye
Pros of NATS
  • 6
    Simple
  • 5
    Open source
  • 5
    Node.js
  • 2
    Real-time
  • 2
    Scalable
  • 2
    Ruby (EventMachine)
  • 2
    BAYEUX Protocol (not proprietary)
  • 22
    Fastest pub-sub system out there
  • 16
    Rock solid
  • 12
    Easy to grasp
  • 4
    Light-weight
  • 4
    Easy, Fast, Secure
  • 2
    Robust Security Model

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Cons of Faye
Cons of NATS
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    • 2
      Persistence with Jetstream supported
    • 1
      No Order
    • 1
      No Persistence

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    What is Faye?

    Faye is a set of tools for simple publish-subscribe messaging between web clients. It ships with easy-to-use message routing servers for Node.js and Rack applications, and clients that can be used on the server and in the browser.

    What is NATS?

    Unlike traditional enterprise messaging systems, NATS has an always-on dial tone that does whatever it takes to remain available. This forms a great base for building modern, reliable, and scalable cloud and distributed systems.

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    What tools integrate with Faye?
    What tools integrate with NATS?
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      What are some alternatives to Faye and NATS?
      NGINX
      nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.
      Apache HTTP Server
      The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the Internet.
      Amazon EC2
      It is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
      Firebase
      Firebase is a cloud service designed to power real-time, collaborative applications. Simply add the Firebase library to your application to gain access to a shared data structure; any changes you make to that data are automatically synchronized with the Firebase cloud and with other clients within milliseconds.
      Amazon Web Services (AWS)
      It is a comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally.
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