Coronium replacing Parse?

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

Since Parse is closing down, I am considering a few other alternatives. Among the ones I have been loking at are

  • Gamesparks
  • Backendless
  • Coronium

The advantage with the first two are of course that they are technically mature, commercially managed feature rich products, but they also cost money. I have therefore looked at Coronium to see if that would be a good alternative. What I would like to know is:

  1. Is Coronium stable enough for a production environment? What I mean is that e.g. if the future of your company depended on a solid BaaS, would you choose Coronium?
  2. How much administration does Coronium need to stay up and running? I have no interest whatsoever in spending time administering it.

Please share your experiences…

#2

Hi,

Coronium currently requires some server interaction, so if that’s something that you’re concerned about, then you will want to go with another service, or wait for Corona Cloud hosted.

In terms of maturity and stability, Coronium has been running for over 2 years, is based on technologies like Nginx (which is used by Netflix, Dropbox, Pinterest, etc). MongoDB and MySQL (they should need no introduction), and LuaJIT - the blazingly fast Lua implementation, and has been tweaked relentlessly to handle a bunch of stuff under the hood (firewall, log rotation, connection tuning, etc). But again, though minimal, you do need to log into the server for certain tasks.

Cheers.

#3

“wait for Corona Cloud hosted”, I must have missed something… Are there plans to resume the Corona Cloud initiative that was shut down years ago? If so, that would indeed be nice!

As for the maturity of Coronium, I now understand that instability is not an issue there.

Thanks!

#4

Searched the forums, saw your postings on Corona Cloud. Amazing, can’t wait to see it… :slight_smile:

#5

Hi,

Coronium currently requires some server interaction, so if that’s something that you’re concerned about, then you will want to go with another service, or wait for Corona Cloud hosted.

In terms of maturity and stability, Coronium has been running for over 2 years, is based on technologies like Nginx (which is used by Netflix, Dropbox, Pinterest, etc). MongoDB and MySQL (they should need no introduction), and LuaJIT - the blazingly fast Lua implementation, and has been tweaked relentlessly to handle a bunch of stuff under the hood (firewall, log rotation, connection tuning, etc). But again, though minimal, you do need to log into the server for certain tasks.

Cheers.

#6

“wait for Corona Cloud hosted”, I must have missed something… Are there plans to resume the Corona Cloud initiative that was shut down years ago? If so, that would indeed be nice!

As for the maturity of Coronium, I now understand that instability is not an issue there.

Thanks!

#7

Searched the forums, saw your postings on Corona Cloud. Amazing, can’t wait to see it… :slight_smile: