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Gun vs SignalR: What are the differences?

Gun: Self-hosted Firebase. GUN is a realtime, decentralized, embedded, graph database engine; SignalR: A new library for ASP.NET developers that makes developing real-time web functionality easy. SignalR allows bi-directional communication between server and client. Servers can now push content to connected clients instantly as it becomes available. SignalR supports Web Sockets, and falls back to other compatible techniques for older browsers. SignalR includes APIs for connection management (for instance, connect and disconnect events), grouping connections, and authorization.

Gun and SignalR can be categorized as "Realtime Backend / API" tools.

Gun and SignalR are both open source tools. Gun with 10.3K GitHub stars and 640 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than SignalR with 7.75K GitHub stars and 2.19K GitHub forks.

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Pros of Gun
Pros of SignalR
  • 0
    Open source
  • 0
    Small size
  • 0
    Real time
  • 32
    Supports .NET server
  • 25
    Real-time
  • 18
    Free
  • 16
    Fallback to SSE, forever frame, long polling
  • 15
    WebSockets
  • 10
    Simple
  • 9
    Open source
  • 8
    Ease of use
  • 8
    JSON
  • 5
    Cool
  • 0
    Azure

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Cons of Gun
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    • 2
      Expertise hard to get
    • 2
      Requires jQuery
    • 1
      Weak iOS and Android support
    • 1
      Big differences between ASP.NET and Core versions

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    What is Gun?

    GUN is a realtime, decentralized, embedded, graph database engine.

    What is SignalR?

    SignalR allows bi-directional communication between server and client. Servers can now push content to connected clients instantly as it becomes available. SignalR supports Web Sockets, and falls back to other compatible techniques for older browsers. SignalR includes APIs for connection management (for instance, connect and disconnect events), grouping connections, and authorization.

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    What tools integrate with Gun?
    What tools integrate with SignalR?
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      What are some alternatives to Gun and SignalR?
      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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