Top 3 Real Time Data Communication Options

What is Real Time Data Communication ?

Real Time Data communication is same as live event, and Real Time Data Communication streams live data in any software or mobile app. It has to give a response in a specific time frame. In real time environment data has been received, processed and returned the final result in milliseconds or in microseconds. Today, many mobile app development companies have created apps that work on Real Time concept in the Current world. Example. Live Streaming Application, Stock Market Application, Chat Applications etc.

How it works ?

Real time applications are Client -Server – Client mechanism, in this the User is connected to both ends (Client and Server). Real Time is not only both way communication but it also has to perform in time which means the result of the communication has been done within the specified time frame. This process will not be called Real time if it is not performed within a specific time frame. Also, note that it is not necessary that every time Real time is high-performance computing.

Popular Third Party Real Time Options for Android

1. PubNub : PubNub is a Realtime Data streaming Network and Real Time Infrastructure as a service. This works on three core services Publish/Subscribe messaging pattern(which is also known as a Pub/Sub messaging pattern) , PubNub Functions and ChatEngine.

This helps Developers to get Real time Data with Lesser Effort. It is available for different platforms like JavaScript, JAVA, .Net , Objective C, Swift etc.

Publish/Subscribe messaging pattern: Sender of the message is called a Publisher and Receiver of the message is called a Subscriber

• Publisher does not programme messages directly , but instead categorize messages into classes without knowing the Subscriber.
• Subscriber who is interested in one or more classes can receive message without knowing the Publisher.

PubNub Functions: Basically functions allow us to run separate codes on PubNub Server side to handle message which needs to be streamed between the publisher and the subscriber.

ChatEngine: ChatEngine is a service to apply all the core feature of the Chat Quickly, it supports private and group chat.

• It also provides basic chat features like emojis support , User online / offline status , message history etc.

2. Firebase Realtime Database and Cloud FireStorage: Firebase is an evolutionary mobile platform which is provided by Google. It gives us two options for managing Real Time data.

• Real Time Database: which is original database of firebase with low latency solution.
  • Real Time Database which gives data updates within seconds, Real Time Database uses the JSON format database for that.,it is NOSQL database. It also works in Offline mode.
  • Real Time: It uses Synchronization instead of HTTP Request, on data update it is received by the client with in milliseconds.
  • Offline Capabilities: Firebase persist our data on Disk so that’s why it can work on Offline mode , when user is offline firebase store changes on disk and when he /she is online it performs that operation for them.
  • Accessible from any Device: Firebase Real time Data can be accessed from any mobile device or web browser, we can also apply security rules for authenticated users.
• Cloud FireStorage : is a newly added solution by firebase which is cloud- hosted and is available in Beta version. It stores data in documents (which is similar to JSON).
  • Documents Supports many types of data types which includes Array, Boolean, Bytes, String, Integer, Null, Map, etc.
  • Offline Capabilities: It also supports offline capabilities for Android, IOS and Web.
  • Expressive query: We can apply multiple chain filter on Single query in FireStorage which we can’t in Real Time Database. So, filtering and sorting of Data is much easier in
    FireStorage.

3. AWS AppSync: AWS AppSync interacts with data source using GraphQL (which is open standard query language) from your application.

AWS works on WebSockets which is a client/server web Technology, as compared to other libraries you have to handle the data by yourself which will add another layer of code from developer side.

• It only works when the app is open
• Message structured needs to be implemented from our side.
• Development with GraphQL: AWS AppSync uses GraphQL, an open standard query language that makes it easy for applications to request data from the cloud.
• Data Security: AWS AppSync helps you keep users’ and app data secure. The service integrates with Amazon Cognito and AWS Identity and Access Management, so you can set fine grained permissions on GraphQL operations that put strict controls on who can access the data.
• Resolve Data Conflict: AWS AppSync can automatically resolve conflicts on data which is shared between multiple users and devices. Conflicts can happen when two or more users make updates at the same time.

Conclusion

Real Time Data Communication rushes live data through and in any software or mobile app. It is important because it has been designed to give the response in the specific time frame. There are many mobile app development companies that have created apps that work on Real Time concept in the Current world. 9series has solutions on the same for you. To know more you can contact our team anytime.

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