What is Backendless?
Backendless is a cloud-based BaaS (Backend-as-a-Service) platform that provides a complete backend infrastructure and services for web, mobile, and IoT applications. It allows developers to build and deploy apps faster by eliminating the need to develop, host, and scale the backend.
Key features of Backendless include:
- Managed cloud databases - provides a hosted NoSQL store and SQL database
- Serverless business logic - run custom backend code without servers
- User authentication - social, enterprise, multi-factor auth options
- Push notifications - targeted messaging to mobile users
- Geo-location services - location tracking and geo-fencing APIs
- Pre-built SDKs - SDKs for multiple platforms like JavaScript, Java, .NET
- REST APIs - expose and access app data and business logic
- Codeless app generation - quick prototyping with UI builder
- Detailed analytics - track detailed usage analytics
The platform takes care of all infrastructure, scalability, availability and management. Developers can deploy the backend code, define data structures, business logic, and publish REST APIs with minimal coding.
Backendless follows a usage based pricing model with free tier for development and trials. It's optimized for building realtime, data-centric mobile and web apps faster.
Airtable, Bubble, Strapi, Firebase, Supabase, Appwrite, Thunkable, ApiOpenStudio, Etebase, Fastgen, Adalo, Hoodie, subZero, ROKO Mobi, Kumulos, brainCloud, Stackprint are some alternatives to Backendless.