As stdbrouw mentions it's basically a CouchDB, I thought about using it in my own server.
However I prefer to use Parse to handle all that without me actually caring about the server side issues and specially given that the price is quite cheap for what my apps need.
Another advantage is their SDK that simplifies communication with the backend even further.
One thing that I don't like is that they don't have a way to add Server Side logic (as Cloudmine does) so my current solution is having a separate heroku instance for those cases.
However I prefer to use Parse to handle all that without me actually caring about the server side issues and specially given that the price is quite cheap for what my apps need.
Another advantage is their SDK that simplifies communication with the backend even further.
One thing that I don't like is that they don't have a way to add Server Side logic (as Cloudmine does) so my current solution is having a separate heroku instance for those cases.