What options are there for Cloud based Mobile App Databases?
This log started out as a research on app.net to see if app.net is similar to the cloud storage (database) solutions that have recently propped up like Cocoafish and Parse.com. As it turned out app.net is different.
satya - Sat Aug 18 2012 09:49:36 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
I don't know yet! here is their home page
satya - Sat Aug 18 2012 09:54:01 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
What it seems to be is
a web presence for each of your mobile applications where the users of the app can become a community for your app!!
satya - Sat Aug 18 2012 09:54:20 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
Google Parse, app.net
Google Parse, app.net
satya - Sat Aug 18 2012 09:56:58 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
Here is google parse home page
satya - Sat Aug 18 2012 09:59:34 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
In this page I seek to answer
How are they similar?
How are they different?
What other competitors are there?
which seems better?
who has the more traction?
what is a similar product that Titanium bought recently?
how does that compare?
satya - Fri Sep 28 2012 09:13:48 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
parse.com features
Define/see/manipulate/Save data in the cloud per app
Sync with data in the cloud
Social logins
Your user interactions
Most of serverside suport for your apps
satya - Fri Sep 28 2012 09:14:50 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
app.net home page
satya - Fri Sep 28 2012 09:21:08 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
what the *ell is app.net: their home page tells nothing useufl
what the *ell is app.net: their home page tells nothing useufl
satya - Fri Sep 28 2012 09:21:21 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
What is app.net?
What is app.net?
satya - Fri Sep 28 2012 09:29:39 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
appcelerator parse.com
appcelerator parse.com
satya - Fri Sep 28 2012 09:31:29 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
app.net is quite unrelated to parse.com
Apparently app.net is in the twitter space....
satya - Fri Sep 28 2012 09:31:53 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
So here is the mobile cloud databases space
satya - Fri Sep 28 2012 09:35:47 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
These fall under BAAS: Backend as a service
Cocoafish - Appecelerator/Titanium now ACS
Parse
Applicasa
Stackmob
satya - Fri Sep 28 2012 09:37:21 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
Very interesting these reek of CRM platforms like, especially
Microsoft Dynamics
Salesforce
satya - Fri Sep 28 2012 09:37:56 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
Mobile app cloud storage microsoft dynamics
Mobile app cloud storage microsoft dynamics
satya - Fri Sep 28 2012 13:12:05 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
Looks like windows is in the running too with its Azure Mobile services. See this link
Looks like windows is in the running too with its Azure Mobile services. See this link
satya - Fri Sep 28 2012 14:38:21 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
IBM BAAS Mobile offering
IBM BAAS Mobile offering
satya - Fri Sep 28 2012 14:45:33 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
So Kinvey is another playa in this space: their features
satya - Fri Sep 28 2012 14:50:36 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
Here is the mad dash according to Kinvey supplied picture
satya - Fri Sep 28 2012 14:52:41 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From the picture it appears the most crowded is the BAAS lane
From the picture it appears the most crowded is the BAAS lane
satya - Fri Jan 11 2013 13:59:04 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
acs parse kinvey stackmob
satya - Fri Jan 11 2013 14:13:14 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
Here is a good comparison article for these systems
satya - Fri Jan 11 2013 14:22:26 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
Here is another new comer: fatfractal.com