Dropbox Datastore API Alternatives

Thanks for that rundown, Caram. I had looked at Cognito but wondered about its future since I don't know a single developer using it.

Since Dropbox's news about deprecating the Datastore API, I have been working with Parse. It requires a bit of a shift in how you think about storing data since it's much more about querying the cloud than it is storing data locally, but so far I am really liking it. I used to always want my data on the device, but this makes make my app slower. Doing lots of queries and intensive calculations on the device is doable, but using Cloud Code on Parse seems like a more reasonable way to handle such things.

Parse is unique in that it has a huge following and tremendous financial support from Facebook, so I see it being around for a long time and only getting better. I also like that I can see my users' data (to reference David D.'s comment) because it makes troubleshooting custom support issues MUCH easier. There's no way to see a user's data when using the Dropbox Datastore unless you log in with their Dropbox account.