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IBM - API Connect vs Reqres: What are the differences?
What is IBM - API Connect? A comprehensive API management solution for your entire API lifecycle from creation to management. A comprehensive API management solution for your entire API lifecycle from creation to management.
What is Reqres? Test your front-end against a real API. A hosted REST-API ready to respond to your AJAX requests.
IBM - API Connect and Reqres can be categorized as "API" tools.
Some of the features offered by IBM - API Connect are:
- Create scalable and secure APIs for application servers, databases, enterprise service buses (ESB) and mainframes
- Manage—create and manage portals that allow developers to quickly discover and consume APIs and securely access enterprise data, and monitor APIs to improve performance.
- Secure—Administrators can manage security and governance over APIs and the microservices. IT can set and enforce API policies to secure back-end information assets and comply with governance and regulatory mandates.
On the other hand, Reqres provides the following key features:
- Reqres does not store any of your data at all
- Fake data
- Real responses
Reqres is an open source tool with 944 GitHub stars and 117 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Reqres's open source repository on GitHub.
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Pros of IBM API Connect
- Innovated Approach, Super customer support6
- Secure API Management2
Pros of Reqres
- Fake data2
- RESTful API2
- Open source1
- Always-on1
- Rapid prototyping of interfaces1
- Language agnostic1
- Hosted on Digital Ocean1
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Cons of IBM API Connect
- Not open, no community research. No Trial download2
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What is IBM API Connect?
It is a complete, modern, intuitive and scalable API platform that lets you create, securely expose, manage and monetize APIs across clouds so that you and your customers can power digital applications and spur innovation.
What is Reqres?
A hosted REST-API ready to respond to your AJAX requests.
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