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Empathy vs ShareDB

A side-by-side look at Empathy and ShareDB. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Empathy

Empathy

Social & Communications

Empathy is an open source instant messaging client that supports text, voice and video chat. It uses the Telepathy framework and integrates with the GNOME desktop environment. Empathy supports popular protocols like XMPP, IRC, Facebook Messenger, and more.

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ShareDB

ShareDB

Development

ShareDB is a realtime database backend for building collaborative applications. It allows clients to concurrently edit database documents while maintaining consistency. It synchronizes data between clients automatically and supports rich data types like JSON.

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