[mortenjorck]

I think a much more interesting title would be "An alternative to Meteor supporting 15+ databases and 4 ORMs."

I'd imagine a lot of people (myself included) have cooled somewhat on Meteor as SQL support has failed to materialize, so Feather's DB flexibility seems like a standout feature.

[wolframhempel]

Good point. Also have a look at https://deepstream.io , a realtime server that follows the same plug-in design philosophy

[sebak]

Only: there's no real-time db support like what Meteor with livequery does. The term 'real-time' is abused a lot here. Not only does neither Meteor, nor feathers offer real-time in the real meaning of the word. A better word is 'reactive'. But feathers just provides the very basic infrastructure (basically just websockets). Meteor also supports any type of DB, but only Mongo comes with reactivity... (Although their 'apollo' project is looking to change this).