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Google Firebase vs Virtuozzo Application Platform comparison

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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) (6th), Mobile Development Platforms (7th)
Virtuozzo Application Platform
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
PaaS Clouds (21st)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Cloud Services solutions, they serve different purposes. Google Firebase is designed for Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) and holds a mindshare of 3.5%, down 3.9% compared to last year.
Virtuozzo Application Platform, on the other hand, focuses on PaaS Clouds, holds 1.7% mindshare, up 0.8% since last year.
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Google Firebase3.5%
Amazon AWS13.3%
Microsoft Azure8.4%
Other74.8%
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
PaaS Clouds Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Virtuozzo Application Platform1.7%
Amazon AWS13.7%
Microsoft Azure12.0%
Other72.6%
PaaS Clouds
 

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.
Miguel Maloney Thompson - PeerSpot reviewer
IC Director at a printing company with 11-50 employees
A scalable and stable solution that has good scalability and is easy to setup
It is a scalable solution. I have yet to have a scenario regarding automatic scale and if there's an increase in resource requirement or need. We have yet to have that scenario. We have yet to test that. The scalability was more than manually adjusting and increasing whatever I had to do. I rate it eight out of ten.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"I love Firebase's notifications, crash analytics, and bug tracking, as it gives you detailed reporting about app usage and users."
"The authentication features have made things a lot easier for our organization. About five years ago, developers had to create authentication systems from scratch. Now, services like Google Firebase provide secure and accurate authentication solutions. We can implement authentication quickly by following their documentation."
"The solution is stable."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The access to Firestore is very easy."
"I'm really happy with the performance and with what it gives us."
"Overall, I have to say that this database is great."
"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."
"The solution is scalable, and that is what we are looking at. There is no learning curve as we have not done much research."
"The dynamic vertical scaling is a unique feature."
"Technical support from Jelastic is very good."
"As a strategic solution, it's really good because it will avoid a lot of cost if you are building your data center, for example, or from scratch."
"The technical support is extremely helpful, and they have a very good support team."
"Jelastic is exactly what we expect from a PaaS vendor: easy-to-start, easy-to-manage, container based technology, support for vertical and horizontal auto-scaling, and all this without vendor lock-in."
"The advanced level of production-ready Docker hosting, one-click application deployment, and the truly flexible pricing."
"We almost don't have to maintain our servers."
 

Cons

"Automation testing with mobile devices could be improved, especially in regression testing to ensure that new feature launches do not affect other features."
"The initial setup is not exactly straightforward."
"The product's user interface for developers needs improvement."
"Scheduling the import was very difficult with Firestore; we had to use a couple of other tools to create schedulers to import, but the import on the Google BigQuery and the Firestore component was still a manual process, which was a bit annoying."
"We had some compatibility issues with Elixir."
"If I were to review the service, it would be about paid functionalities, like implementing notifications, is easy, but debugging is not."
"Google Firebase should add extra functionality to do global delete and updates across your database."
"The customization options for password resetting are limited. The process requires additional steps and coding to make it user-friendly. While Google Firebase works well for the login page, password resetting and user verification redirect users to a separate interface, which is not very user-friendly."
"The security layers also need to be improved because there is no clear layer or tier of security in the solution."
"An S3 like storage system, if they have a s3 API compatible system I can move my files from AWS."
"I would like to see better integration into enterprise storage products."
"For now, some customers are requesting support of Docker containers for Windows."
"The backup functionality needs to be improved."
"The backup features need improvement, or rather it should be added, as I could not find it."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The monthly cost is based on writing data and queries to the database."
"The more the number of reads and writes, the more one gets charged."
"Pricing for Google Firebase is not so expensive, and if you're a start-up with a small amount of data, it will be quite cheap, and there's even a free tier that you can use. If you're doing a pilot with a reasonable amount of data, for example, just a few gigabytes, it's still on the free tier. If you increase the amount of data, Google Firebase pricing is still reasonable."
"The moment you go into volumes, then you work on a pay-per-volume basis."
"The price of Google Firebase is very good."
"They have a free tier that will cover most projects. For more intensive use, you pay as you use it, but the price is very cheap."
"Google Firebase’s pricing needs improvement."
"My company makes very minimal payments toward the licensing costs of the solution."
"I would rate the cost 3 out of 5. There are additional costs other than licensing fees."
"Pricing for providers is revenue-shared based. Providers should invest in hardware to set up the Jelastic cluster."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
12%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Marketing Services Firm
8%
Outsourcing Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Construction Company
6%
Energy/Utilities Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business31
Midsize Enterprise9
Large Enterprise9
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
 

Questions from the Community

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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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The pricing structure needs improvement since it uses cloud billing. We do not know how the pricing is calculated as it is all on the cloud. They could have implemented credits based on usage so th...
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