Streamdata.io

Technology

Streamdata.io provides a Proxy as a Service for any HTTP API by polling and acting as a streaming API. It is the first-level client-side operation that provides streaming capabilities without any coding requested at server level.

Launched in April 2015, The first version of Streamdata.io converts any JSON RESTful API into an incremental data stream based on JSONPatch and Server Sent Events (also known as EventSource) standards.

When a client connects to an API through Streamdata.io servers, Streamdata.io will start polling the sourced API. The first piece of data sent to a client is a copy of the sourced API answer. Thereafter, Streamdata.io will send the client only diff calculated at server level.

Streamdata.io claims a number of benefits from this approach. First, the sourced API will be polled only once independently of the number of clients connected through Streamdata.io. Second, client-side benefits from the advantages of push over poll (battery consumption and latency improvement). To match with the sourced API rate limits, polling frequency from Streamdata.io's server to the sourced API is fixed by the user within its portal.

A first review of this service was made by Kin Lane.

Company

Previously known under the brand name Motwin, Streamdata.io is a France-based company with offices in Meylan and in Paris. It currently has 15 employees in its staff. Streamdata.io claims to count amongst its customers several prestigious clients such as BNP Paribas, AXA, La Poste, Betclic, La Société Générale, Schneider Electric, and Custom Sensors & Technologies Inc. (CST) for their streaming-based products. In July 2015, Streamdata.io and Restlet signed a partnership to provide Streaming APIs to their customers.

Streamdata.io provides open source demos for client-side applications via GitHub: https://github.com/streamdataio/.

Competitors

Firebase