Shopify vs Convex

Shopify

Convex

Shopify · 22 features

• Admin APIs — REST + GraphQL for management.
• App Store — 8,000+ apps.
• B2B (Plus) — Company accounts + catalogs.
• Checkout — Shopify-managed checkout (PCI-compliant).
• Checkout Extensibility — UI extensions in checkout (Plus).
• Collections — Manual + smart grouping.
• Customers — CRM-lite + B2B (Plus).
• Discounts — Automatic + code-based.
• Hydrogen — React/Remix headless framework.
• Inventory — Multi-location stock.
• Markets — Multi-region selling (currency, language).
• Online Store — Default Liquid-based storefront.
• Orders + Fulfillment — Multi-location fulfillment.
• Oxygen — Edge hosting for Hydrogen (Plus).
• Products + Variants — Full PIM.
• Shipping + Rates — Carrier integrations.
• Shopify Functions — Rust/WASM backend extensions.
• Shopify Payments — First-party payment processor.
• Shop Pay — Accelerated checkout with saved payment.
• Storefront API — GraphQL for custom storefronts.
• Theme Store — First-party + paid themes.
• Webhooks — Event subscriptions.

Convex · 18 features

• Actions — Non-deterministic functions for external I/O (fetch, AI APIs, email). Cannot rea…
• Authentication — Convex Auth (built-in) or BYO provider (Clerk, Auth0, Kinde, WorkOS). ID tokens …
• Convex Agents — AI agent framework with durable memory, threads, tool use. Works with OpenAI / A…
• Convex Auth — First-party auth library: passwords, magic links, OAuth, phone — stored in your …
• Convex Components — Reusable backend modules (rate limiter, workflow, aggregate, action-retrier, etc…
• Cron Jobs — Recurring schedules defined in convex/crons.ts. UTC, cron-style patterns.
• Durable Workflows — Long-running multi-step workflows with retries and at-least-once guarantees.
• Exception Reporting — Auto-capture errors to Sentry, Axiom, Datadog.
• File Storage — Upload/download via storage API. Returns storage IDs referenced in documents.
• Full-Text Search — BM25 search index on table fields. withSearchIndex query helper.
• HTTP Actions — Expose public HTTP endpoints for webhooks, OAuth callbacks, third-party integrat…
• Log Streams — Stream function logs to Axiom, Datadog, Sentry. Pro+.
• Mutations — Transactional write functions. All reads + writes in one mutation are ACID; conf…
• Preview Deployments — Every Git branch gets its own isolated deployment. Integrates with Vercel/Netlif…
• Queries — Deterministic read-only TS functions. Automatically cached and re-run when under…
• Real-Time Subscriptions — useQuery auto-subscribes; server invalidates when data a query read changes. No …
• Scheduler — schedule.after / schedule.at — enqueue functions to run later. Durable, survives…
• Vector Search — Native vector index on tables. withIndex + filter fields. Up to 4096 dims.