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Road to a Brand New MBaaS World After Parse Announces Shutdown

Parse, the ace ‘backend as a service’ is readying up for its complete shutdown on January 2017. There is an imminent rush surrounding the migration from Parse. App developers are suggested to switch to a whole new range of back-end service platforms to continue having a hassle-free life after Parse. There are a considerable number of mobile apps that are still using Parse as their backend service provider for installations. Kumulos, Firebase, Kinvey and Applicasa are being considered as future MBaaS companies by game developers. One can also consider having their own backend solution in order to have custom-made solutions for one’s own app.

Having a phenomenal growth in a short span of time had left Parse with 500,000 mobile apps under its umbrella in 2014. Being founded in 2011 it took less than a year to have a 40% monthly growth and its tools being used by more than 20000 mobile developers in 2012.  Well regulated efforts and an extraordinary rise left Parse with a number of accolades over the years. It was named one of the most innovative companies among the top 50 by Fast Company in 2013. It might take some time for Mobile Game App Development Companies to get comfortable with alternative MBaas companies but there surely will be a brighter day for app developers to count on their own.

Kumulos

This is already making news for being a smart interface. Beginners are finding it easy to handle. The Kumulos interface allows apps to communicate and perform CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations on an existing database. This will be of great help in migrating data from existing servers onto the Kumulos platform. If you are going through system maintenance Kumulos takes care of quick and easy data migration.

There are no added/extra costs for you till the app’s launch. Kumulos also offers extensive migration support. After an app has been launched it costs roughly $10 per month. Contact them for pricing details: https://www.kumulos.com/contact-us/

Firebase

Highly interactive games and apps will find a better choice in Firebase which follows a model-observer scheme. All changes made in the server are transferred to devices registered on Firebase. It follows a freemium model where prices start from $0. In order to avail a complete range of services Inferno plan can be taken into account for $1500 a month. Contact them for a wide range of pricing plans: https://www.firebase.com/pricing.html

Kinvey

You can have a monthly 200 active user base as Kinvey comes free of cost. There is a paid plan to avail a multi-tenant arrangement. Large-sized companies can look forward to have an annual enterprise arrangement ranging between $24000 to $60000. Please visit: http://www.kinvey.com/pricing

Appcelerator

This is considered as one of the most feature-rich MBaas platforms. Its cloud services are extremely good. There are a wide range of utilities offered by Appcelerator like push notifications, save on server, geolocation, key-value objects and easy yet effective APIs. You can switch to exporting your data as well.

There are no free offerings but an Indie plan at $39 per month can be considered its only low-range plan. The Team plan comes for $259 per seat per month. An Enterprise plan is available on ‘call and request for a quote’. Compare plans at Kinvey by visiting:

Applicasa

This MBaas platform is known to be a ‘one-stop-shop’. They do not charge on the number of API calls but their unique business model levies costs per number of users. Their monthly ADAU or average daily active users come for an accumulated price. Whenever there is a growth in your number of users there will be a rise in the pricing model. Get their pricing details from:

Have a Backend of your own

It will require a lot of hard work and maintenance skills but you will be ensured a maximum customizable option for your apps. In order to get an enhanced backend service a self-suited tailor-made option is the best as there will be no fear of waking up to shutdowns.

It is suggested that app developers complete all kinds of migration procedures as that would take up more than 6 months’ time. Complete shutdown of Parse is slated on 17 January 2017.

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