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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.
Pros of Mendix
Pros of Parse
- Easy setup118
- Free hosting78
- Well-documented62
- Cheap52
- Use push notifications in 3 lines of code47
- Fast41
- Cloud code39
- Good for prototypes32
- Cloud modules31
- Backed by facebook27
- Parse Push7
- Cross Platform7
- Parse Analytics6
- Multiplatform6
- Parse Core6
- Quick chat and profile capabilities5
- Free Tier5
- Cloud Based5
- Nice security concept4
- Free4
- About to Die3
- Local Datastore3
- Backend as a service3
- Backbone Models3
- Geopoints3
- Anonymous Users2
- Easy to use2