Was playing with Backlift not too long ago (They have nice Backbone [1] and AngularJS [2] tutorials using their backend) and it looks promising, but I haven't g

Was playing with Backlift not too long ago (They have nice Backbone [1] and AngularJS [2] tutorials using their backend) and it looks promising, but I haven't got the chance to really do a comparison with Firebase (isn't it also a YC company?) What are the differences between Backlift and Firebase (or Parse)? What are the value add features? What things are done differently / better? [1] http://gun.io/blog/Building-Backbone.js-apps-with-Backlift-Views-and-Templates/ http://gun.io/blog/Building-Backbone.js-apps-with-Backlift-V... [2] https://blog.backlift.com/entry/angular-tut1 https://blog.backlift.com/entry/angular-tut1