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Gun vs Pushpin: What are the differences?
Gun: Self-hosted Firebase. GUN is a realtime, decentralized, embedded, graph database engine; Pushpin: Reverse proxy for realtime web services. Pushpin is a reverse proxy server that makes it easy to build realtime web services. The project is unique among realtime push solutions in that it is designed to address the needs of API creators.
Gun and Pushpin belong to "Realtime Backend / API" category of the tech stack.
Gun and Pushpin are both open source tools. Gun with 10.3K GitHub stars and 640 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Pushpin with 2.53K GitHub stars and 96 GitHub forks.
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What is Gun?
GUN is a realtime, decentralized, embedded, graph database engine.
What is Pushpin?
Pushpin is a reverse proxy server that makes it easy to build realtime web services. The project is unique among realtime push solutions in that it is designed to address the needs of API creators.
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What are some alternatives to Gun and Pushpin?
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.