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Engine Yard vs ShareDB

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

Engine Yard

Engine Yard

Development

Engine Yard is a platform as a service (PaaS) that provides automated cloud hosting, management, and scaling for Ruby on Rails and PHP applications. It handles provisioning, configuring, monitoring, patching, and managing servers and applications in the cloud.

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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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