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Firehose.io vs Telepat: What are the differences?
What is Firehose.io? Build realtime Ruby web applications. Firehose is both a Rack application and JavaScript library that makes building real-time web applications possible.
What is Telepat? Real time data synchronization platform for modern API driven web&mobile apps. Telepat is an open-source backend stack, designed to deliver information and information updates in real-time to clients, while allowing for flexible deployment and simple scaling.
Firehose.io and Telepat can be categorized as "Realtime Backend / API" tools.
Some of the features offered by Firehose.io are:
- Firehose embraces RESTful design prinicpals and consequently works great with any library that speaks HTTP
- Integrates with Backbone.js and Ember.js
- Hook it into an ORM, like ActiveRecord
On the other hand, Telepat provides the following key features:
- real-time sync
- query-able
- user auth
Telepat is an open source tool with 340 GitHub stars and 20 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Telepat's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Firehose.io
- RESTful2
- Rails gem2
- Works with ActiveRecord2
- Clean way to build real-time web applications1