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Horizon vs SignalR: What are the differences?

Horizon: A realtime, open-source JavaScript back end from RethinkDB *. Horizon provides a complete backend that makes it dramatically simpler to build, deploy, manage, and scale engaging JavaScript web and mobile apps. Horizon is extensible, integrates with the Node.js stack, and allows building modern, arbitrarily complex applications; *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.

Horizon and SignalR can be primarily classified as "Realtime Backend / API" tools.

Horizon and SignalR are both open source tools. SignalR with 7.73K GitHub stars and 2.19K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Horizon with 6.77K GitHub stars and 386 GitHub forks.

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Supports .NET server
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Real-time
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Free
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Fallback to SSE, forever frame, long polling
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WebSockets
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Simple
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Open source
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Ease of use
8
JSON
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Cool
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Expertise hard to get
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Requires jQuery
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Weak iOS and Android support
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Big differences between ASP.NET and Core versions

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What is Horizon?

Horizon provides a complete backend that makes it dramatically simpler to build, deploy, manage, and scale engaging JavaScript web and mobile apps. Horizon is extensible, integrates with the Node.js stack, and allows building modern, arbitrarily complex applications.

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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NGINX

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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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