We performed a comparison between Knack and Mendix based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Oracle, OutSystems and others in Rapid Application Development Software."The security is the most valuable feature, in particular, the way I can give different access to different areas to different people, so you can really fine-tune access for different users."
"Mendix has made a great deal of effort to provide its developers a healthy, modern environment for developing. First of all, it adopts Agile methodology by creating a SCRUM-based app where you can handle your user stories. Next comes version control, which really allows multiple team members to collaborate quite easily. And last but not least, Mendix modeler, which is your IDE for developing Mendix apps."
"You can scale the solution."
"The most valuable features of Mendix are the drag and drop functions, the data entities, domain models, and all the related features."
"The user experience is great."
"The most valuable features of the product are its ease of use and speed. My friend and I find it helpful as a team of just two developers."
"The integrated security saves a lot of time, especially when it comes to setting up user-roles and security. Also, database updates work automatically. There is no need to write queries to update the database, once you make an update."
"You can scale the solution."
"There are free online learning and certifications if a user would like to learn more and better understand the solution."
"The user interface for the systems that you build can use some improvement because as it is now, you have to do a lot of HTML and CSS to make it look modern."
"I would like to see more documentation as well as how-to documents."
"You need experienced programmers and developers to understand this solution."
"While the documentation is good, the development box could be better."
"There should be more integration with engineering applications and tighter integration for user authentication, such as single sign-on, etc. They have some of that. It just could be stronger."
"There's no direct tech support."
"It could use a more comprehensive widget creation studio in the IDE."
"Needs multiple database connections so an app can directly read/write data to/from multiple databases. This would enable easy splitting of big applications that have complex entity relationships."
"There are not enough developers who are using Mendix. The knowledge base available online and in the market is not as rich as other competitors."
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Knack is ranked 30th in Rapid Application Development Software while Mendix is ranked 5th in Rapid Application Development Software with 48 reviews. Knack is rated 9.0, while Mendix is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Knack writes "Flexible and granular security options, good filtering, and the pricing model is cost-effective". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Mendix writes "Low-code, helpful support, and great native mobile capability". Knack is most compared with Caspio, Microsoft Power Apps, Salesforce Platform, Amazon AWS and AppSheet, whereas Mendix is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, OutSystems, Appian, Oracle Application Express (APEX) and ServiceNow.
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