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Categories and Ranking

Google Firebase
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
49
Ranking in other categories
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) (5th), Mobile Development Platforms (6th)
Stratoscale [EOL]
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

Himash Careem - PeerSpot reviewer
Intermediate Software Engineer at Xelleron Pty
Analytics integration has improved how I manage user identity and understand customer behavior
I face difficulties with the authentication parts in Google Firebase when it goes with iOS applications. With Android applications, that is easier because Google owns it. When it goes to iOS applications, there should be a much more straightforward, smoother way. I mostly faced that with Flutter because with Flutter, there are two sides with Android and iOS. The Android part was pretty much easier for me, but when it goes to the iOS part, there was more work on that.
RB
Server and Storage Platform Team Lead at Invesco US
I like the automation and self-healing features
SDDC. Speed to market. Automation and self-healing. Oracle engine. Google and Azure API. Still implementing.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"What I like most about Google Firebase is that it's one of the easier options to host a website or app quickly."
"Allows us to create functions without any infrastructure apart from the Google App Engine."
"The Realtime Database feature is the most important for us since we are able to see changes in the database the moment they are happening."
"It helps me understand user behavior more effectively with Google Analytics."
"The solution is useful for managing users and user authentication."
"Firebase offers encryption out of the box."
"The most valuable features of Google Firebase are its database, noSQL database, file storage, authentication, and notifications."
"The most beautiful feature of Google Firebase is that it gives you a lot of functionalities out of the box, without you having to develop or having to complete a solution."
"We efficiently move resources between major engineering projects."
"Automation and self-healing."
"We hired a third company to stress test the system and it was above and beyond in terms of what we expected."
 

Cons

"The product is not that cheap."
"In Google Firebase, reporting is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required to be made in the future."
"Google Firebase should add extra functionality to do global delete and updates across your database."
"There needs to be an easy way to duplicate a database."
"Google Cloud Functions (which is still a BETA version) needs to have more control over the uploaded functions. That is, it needs more options for controlling the functions itself."
"What I hate most about Google Firebase is that it has many different versions and releases new ones frequently."
"There was no way of knowing how the rise in traffic would impact the price."
"The initial setup is not exactly straightforward."
"We never had an issue with stability, but when we implemented the product, there were certain places where we weren't sure that they are completely aligned with our goals, in terms of how we use the system to get there."
"Oracle engine. Google and Azure API."
"Initial setup was complex at the beginning as the system was still lacking some important features, while every new release required a full reinstallation."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing plans indicate it can get very expensive."
"It is an expensive tool."
"I rate Google Firebase a seven or eight out of ten for pricing."
"We are using the free version of Google Firebase."
"The price is perfect and very clearly defined. The price during the trial setup is free and then you move to a paid service."
"The more the number of reads and writes, the more one gets charged."
"The price of Google Firebase is very good."
"The product is free."
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Top Industries

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Comms Service Provider
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Marketing Services Firm
8%
Outsourcing Company
8%
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Midsize Enterprise9
Large Enterprise9
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We like Google Firebase hosting and authentication and also the excellent cloud functionality. Our team found the flexibility of handling and dealing with the database through EDL to be very useful...
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