I have been prototyping an app on parse over the last month, I've been pretty disappointed. Mainly with regards to their database system. As others have pointed

I have been prototyping an app on parse over the last month, I've been pretty disappointed. Mainly with regards to their database system. As others have pointed out there's insane limits on things like count queries. There is 1000 record limit on queries in general. The performance of cloudcode between the db is awful, you have to batch everything into tiny operations or risk timeouts. Skip has a 10k record limit. Their web based data browser tool seems unfinished, for instance you can't even insert into relational columns and deleting 100 records at a time locks up my browser. This guy has compiled a good list of limitations: http://profi.co/all-the-limits-of-parse/ http://profi.co/all-the-limits-of-parse/ It may be okay for very simple applications but for anything non trivial or with a large db I would not recommend it. Any time saved by having a PAAS out of the box is lost trying to work around all the weird data access limitations.