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Parse vs Mendix: What are the differences?

Parse: The complete mobile app platform. With Parse, you can add a scalable and powerful backend in minutes and launch a full-featured app in record time without ever worrying about server management. We offer push notifications, social integration, data storage, and the ability to add rich custom logic to your app’s backend with Cloud Code; Mendix: Low-code platform used by businesses to develop mobile & web apps. It is a low-code software platform. It provides tools to build, test, deploy and iterate applications.

Parse and Mendix can be categorized as "Mobile Backend" tools.

Some of the features offered by Parse are:

  • Store basic data types, locations, photos
  • Update over the air
  • Data browser lets you manage, search, and update content without writing a single line of code

On the other hand, Mendix provides the following key features:

  • Centralized App Governance
  • Drag & Drop Forms Builder
  • Enterprise Integration

Mendix is an open source tool with 30 GitHub stars and 276 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Mendix's open source repository on GitHub.

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    • 118
      Easy setup
    • 78
      Free hosting
    • 62
      Well-documented
    • 52
      Cheap
    • 47
      Use push notifications in 3 lines of code
    • 41
      Fast
    • 39
      Cloud code
    • 32
      Good for prototypes
    • 31
      Cloud modules
    • 27
      Backed by facebook
    • 7
      Parse Push
    • 7
      Cross Platform
    • 6
      Parse Analytics
    • 6
      Multiplatform
    • 6
      Parse Core
    • 5
      Quick chat and profile capabilities
    • 5
      Free Tier
    • 5
      Cloud Based
    • 4
      Nice security concept
    • 4
      Free
    • 3
      About to Die
    • 3
      Local Datastore
    • 3
      Backend as a service
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      Backbone Models
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      Geopoints
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      Anonymous Users
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      Easy to use

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    What is Mendix?

    It is a low-code software platform. It provides tools to build, test, deploy and iterate applications.

    What is Parse?

    With Parse, you can add a scalable and powerful backend in minutes and launch a full-featured app in record time without ever worrying about server management. We offer push notifications, social integration, data storage, and the ability to add rich custom logic to your app’s backend with Cloud Code.

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