restdb.io makes it simple to create a user-friendly, manageable database with a REST-API. For some types of applications, however, you need real-time updates delivered to your front-end web page or mobile app. 
Polling the API from the client could be an option, but often induces too much traffic. Services like Firebase has real-time data, but then you don't get the powerful data manager or the possibility to host web pages in your database like you can in restdb.io. This is where streamdata.io can add to the power of restdb.io. Streamdata.io let's you take any API and create a real-time data source for it!

Real-time is useful for many scenarios like chat, live financial data, games and live maps to mention a few. In this blog post we will show you how easy it is to use streamdata.io with restdb.io by creating a real-time chat running in a restdb.io HTML Page.