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NATS vs Streamdata.io: What are the differences?
What is NATS? Lightweight publish-subscribe & distributed queueing messaging system. Unlike traditional enterprise messaging systems, NATS has an always-on dial tone that does whatever it takes to remain available. This forms a great base for building modern, reliable, and scalable cloud and distributed systems.
What is Streamdata.io? Efficiently Turn APIs into Real-time Experiences. Streamdata.io is a real-time cache proxy allowing you to poll JSON REST APIs and push updates to clients. Streamdata.io also keeps a history of modifications that occur on the data between two pollings. This way, streamdata.io is able to give you the list of modifications which happened since last time you fetched the data.
NATS and Streamdata.io belong to "Realtime Backend / API" category of the tech stack.
Pros of NATS
- Fastest pub-sub system out there22
- Rock solid16
- Easy to grasp12
- Light-weight4
- Easy, Fast, Secure4
- Robust Security Model2
Pros of Streamdata.io
- Best way to stream a static API1
- The quickest way to turn any existing API into stream1
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Cons of NATS
- Persistence with Jetstream supported2
- No Order1
- No Persistence1