Google Firebase Reviews

I use Google Firebase mainly for applications. Google Firebase has competitors like Supabase and PostgreSQL. Google Firebase has a lot of services like storage, Firestore, and push notifications. The solution also has a feature where you can change the parameters online. Other products in the market cannot compare with the many services Google Firebase provides for application development.

Also, the solution's deployment for the App Store is very easy with the swing Firebase. Mostly, 90% of people use Google Firebase because of its availability in many places. The solution is very fast, scalable, and dynamic. If you have a lot of clients, the solution will automatically scale up to the number of your clients.

Google Firebase's app testing feature for Android, where you can upload your APK, needs improvement because it's not working very well. It's not very easy because you can upload one version of your app and test it with different phones. Google needs to improve it because I tried it multiple times and found that manually testing the app works better and much faster.

Google should find a way to reduce the solution's read and write. For example, if you have a list of 100 clients for only one click, and if they read, it will be 100 reads, which is expensive. We could use a cache method, but it's still expensive. So Google should reduce the cost a bit. Like Supabase, Google Firebase can have SQL models so that we can have relational and non-relational databases at the same time. A relational database could be much cheaper in some cases.

I have been using Google Firebase since 2018.

Google Firebase is a very stable solution.

Google Firebase is a scalable solution.

Everyone uses Google Firebase because it is very easy to set up, run, and maintain. Even if you don't have a lot of experience in coding or the back end, you could deploy the solution in a very short time.

Google Firebase is an expensive solution.

Google Firebase is very fast and easy to use, but it's expensive. The solution is expensive because of the read-and-write feature. So, if you have a lot of clients and don't know how to optimize it in your app, it will cost you a lot. The solution is easy to set up, but you have to know how to read and write.

Google Firebase has a lot of services like push notifications and Firestore. For example, I once used AWS Amplify, and it's not easy to deploy. Apart from Supabase, which arrived last year in the market, Google Firebase does not have a lot of alternatives. However, the downside is that it's expensive. The solution has a special calculator, but it still is unclear how much it charges us for read and write functions.

Overall, I rate Google Firebase an eight out of ten.

I am using Google Firebase as a real-time database for all my applications. It allows me to get data in real time with an automatically refreshable website, so there is no delay. Even if the data changes, my website automatically updates, even if it is open in a browser.

Google Firebase has helped my organization by providing a real-time database, which means I don't have to worry about delays and ensures automatic website updates. It also provides an easy way to manage user authentication with various providers like Google, Microsoft, and Facebook.

The real-time database feature is the most valuable, allowing real-time feedback without needing to constantly poll the database. It enables real-time interactions similar to seeing cars moving on a map in real time.

There needs to be an easy way to duplicate a database. Currently, creating a copy of a database is a manual process, which could be improved with an option to automatically create another copy.

I have been working with Google Firebase for probably ten years.

From the point of view of reliability, Google Firebase works well with no issues.

In terms of scalability, Google Firebase handles it well. It automatically scales like YouTube when hosting video content, allowing millions of customers to stream the same content without any manual intervention.

I have not needed to contact Google support for Firebase. Whereas, I have contacted AWS support, which is really good, because I couldn't figure out certain things. For Google, I never needed the support.

Positive

I have used Google Cloud and AWS previously. Google Cloud is the cheapest and their free tier is very generous. Google Cloud has allowed me to run sites for years without any cost, unlike AWS which costs me even though it receives less traffic.

The setup process for Google Firebase is not difficult. I have looked it over and found that you don't have to know a lot to get started.

Google Cloud is the cheapest among the solutions I have used. Their free tier is very generous, allowing me to run sites with no cost.

I evaluated AWS and Azure before using Google Firebase.

I would recommend Google Firebase because it provides reliable and scalable solutions.

I'd rate the solution ten out of ten.

We use Firebase primarily for storing user data, authentication data, and many more - like Apple authentication data, Google authentication data, Facebook authentication data, and storage of any authentication data in Firestore. 

We also use it for chat modules such as one-to-one or real-time chat using the real-time database.

Firebase has been very useful to us. We have been using Firebase for three years, and it has been beneficial as we can store user data efficiently. Additionally, the access to Firestore is very easy.

Firebase provides valuable features in the Flutter framework. We can use Firebase through the SDK. The provider like Firebase gives access to their database through Stream or FutureBuilder. The integration with Flutter is seamless, making it very easy to use.

There are many features in Firebase that we have not used. As we are a small team, we have only utilized some features, however, all those features have been very useful, and there is no problem.

We have been using Firebase for three years.

Stability is excellent, given that Firebase is a Google product.

The support from Google is highly responsive. We once encountered an incident where a developer mistakenly deleted the database. We emailed Google's support team, and they promptly recovered the full database for us.

Positive

I recommend Firebase to everyone looking to use any cloud database. It is worth using and very useful.

I'd rate the solution ten out of ten.

I use the solution as a database and even for Google Firebase's authentication-related stuff.

I love using Google Firebase for authentication. Anyone who develops a website or app can integrate Google Firebase's authentication part seamlessly with minimal lines of code, and it provides an API for that. Google Firebase has authentication features that are very important and necessary.

What I hate most about Google Firebase is that it has many different versions and releases new ones frequently. Once the previous version becomes outdated, all websites or apps using that version will be vulnerable and stop working. In such cases, one must upgrade the tool to another version and then make necessary changes if there are any deprecated functions. The code has to be changed or modified after an update.

I have been using Google Firebase for a year and a half. I am just a user of the solution.

It is a stable solution. Google Firebase is actively being maintained by Google. There are plenty of users of the tool, millions and millions of users. It is a completely reliable product.

Scalability is present in the tool, but at the same time, it comes with a cost.

I haven't spoken to the solution's technical support. Ten out of ten times, I have found a solution for the problem I am facing on their forum and Stack Overflow. It is simple to debug. There are plenty of times that we come across an error when someone is using the tool. The main issue in the tool is associated with its version because anytime there is a new version. There has to be many changes made. It is easy to find a solution to the challenges that one is facing.

Google Firebase has easy deployment features, and it also provides Firestore from Google Firebase, which is very helpful for deploying websites. Overall, the tool has plenty of necessary features.

The more the number of reads and writes, the more one gets charged. People can make a simple mistake since the pricing model is dynamic and based on usage, or whenever there is massive traffic to the database or anything, we get charged, and then we must pay all of the tool's charges.

People have to be very careful before choosing any cloud storage. It can get expensive pretty fast. If there is an unexpected traffic, then there will be costs.

The product provides integration features in multiple languages, such as Python, JavaScript, Golang, and all other languages. Google Firebase has documentation, which might seem a bit confusing, but one with decent knowledge can easily explore and get started with Firebase quickly.

Before jumping into any cloud infrastructure, the tool should analyze how much it would cost to run the database. Google Firebase provides a certain number of reads and writes per day, which is approximately 40,000 reads and writes. If there are more than 200 to 300 active users per day, there will be plenty of reads and writes to the database. In such a case, one can't use Google Firebase and has to upgrade to Spark, which is where it is based on usage.

The tool is fairly simple to get started with. Utilize all the features can get very complicated. One must be a pretty good developer who has a lot of experience to be able to utilize the best features. It gets really complicated over time. The basic functionality and basic usage are easy to use and easy to get started.

There are plenty of deprecated versions, and frequently upgrading them causes inconvenience.

I rate the tool a nine out of ten.

My team uses the solution for authentication and back-end server deployment.

The product is easy to use.

The product is not that cheap.

I have been using the solution for more than five years.

The tool’s stability is better than that of Azure. We did not have any issues with stability.

I rate the tool’s scalability an eight out of ten. We have 21 users. Few of them work remotely.

The user experience is good. The setup is easier than that of Alibaba Cloud.

The solution’s pricing is similar to that of AWS. The cheapest tool is Alibaba Cloud.

We use Amazon S3 most of the time. We also use Clerk and Alibaba ECS. Clerk is a one-stop solution for authentication. We do not have to develop anything for authentication. It’s very easy to attach an API for the customer to log in to Facebook. We have 19 different authentication styles. It is not very expensive. Our choice of solution depends on our customers’ requirements. Alibaba Cloud provides good support.

We use Google Analytics for marketing purposes. Overall, I rate the tool an eight out of ten.

I mainly use authentication, database, notifications, and remote config. Most of the key features of Firebase.

The authentication. It's a managed product that supports all types of authentication and has a generous free trial. They give a very big free credit to start with.

Firebase Analytics is good enough, but I prefer to use Google Analytics directly by inserting their tag in my code.

We don't use their app distribution product. It's okay, but not that useful.

They lack a SQL database. It would be great to have that feature added.

Like PlanetScale. They have a Firebase database as well as a real-time database, but no SQL database.

I have been using it for three to four years now. 

It's stable. No issues so far.

All students use it, especially for building side projects. Maybe not everyone uses all features, but Firebase authentication is widely used.

Firebase authentication is very scalable. But for the Firestore database, people say you can get a big bill when you scale up.

We didn't experience that because we didn't reach that scale, but their pricing plans indicate it can get very expensive.

Cloud Storage is good, but I switched to Cloudflare R2 because to the cheap pricing plans. However, at scale, Firestore can have issues with concurrent writes, like exceeding rate limits.

We did reach out to them for GCP, but not for Firebase. 

The initial setup is very easy. Even for a beginner. Their documentation is good, and there are a lot of helpful videos on YouTube.

The pricing plans indicate it can get very expensive.

I would definitely recommend it to others. It is very easy to learn. 

Overall, I would rate it a nine out of ten.

I use Analytics for Firebase, Firebase Cloud Messaging, and Firebase Crashlytics. I have also used Firebase Performance.

Google Analytics for Firebase is the best feature of the solution. Generally, for analytics, I must integrate GA4 for the web. Since Firebase supports analytics, I can now analyze on the same dashboard using Google Analytics. It is very useful for me. The notification services, Google Analytics, and Crashlytics are easy to use.

The notifications must be made a little bit better. Firebase Cloud Messaging doesn’t support non-dismissable notifications. I encountered some difficulties migrating the code from Firebase Cloud Storage to another DB.

I have been using the solution for three years and two months.

The product had bugs. I haven't found any bugs for the past one and a half years. There are conflicts with the Flutter text package while migrating to the latest Firebase version. It would be better if the problem were resolved.

The product is much more scalable compared to other solutions. I know 12 people in the organization who use the solution. Eight know the tool well and use it in different company projects.

I contacted support when I started using the solution. Now, I don’t need any support. The documentation is understandable.

The initial installation was easier after FlutterFire CLI was created. It was very useful to integrate the product. Before FlutterFire CLI, it was a little bit harder to integrate the tool into iOS.

The tool is affordable. The cost is a bit high compared to REST API. Some clients prefer REST API over Firebase.

I have deployed one project in the cloud. I have used some services of the solution for other use cases. The services similar to notification services, Google Analytics, and Crashlytics are not easy to use in other tools. I will recommend the solution if someone wants to use the notification services, Messaging, Analytics, and Crashlytics. However, I will not suggest if someone wants to use Firebase Cloud Storage.

The solution is difficult to learn if someone is just starting their career. If we get a little bit of guidance from a senior, it will be very easy. I number the patchwork for app versioning and deployment just like Android versioning. The first digit will be for batches from right to left, the second for major updates, and the third for a complete app version change. I increase the number by one for every build, patch it, and publish it. I use the same logic if I am deploying in Firebase.

Most of the applications I have worked on are e-commerce-based applications. The main requirement for clients in such applications is conversion rate. When a user interacts with a particular product, the client wants to know whether the user purchased the product or not. They want to know where the users lost interest and went away without making the payment. Google Analytics helped me fix such issues much better than any other product. I'm very happy with it.

Sometimes, I couldn't figure out how to fix issues when working on iOS. Suppose I’m just upgrading Firebase through workspace.yaml, sometimes, I may need to check whether the native version is supported. I will have to go through the documentation again. It will be much better if it is fixed by changing the version in workspace.yaml. Everything else works well.

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

Integrations and extensions offered by the product are quite limited presently. From an improvement perspective, the tool should try to increase the extensions it provides. I feel that Google is trying to improve in the area of the extensions it provides, but I feel that it would take time.

I have been using Google Firebase for four years.

Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

Considering the scope of the product's use in my company, I can't comment much on the tool's scalability.

Around 500 people in my company use the product.

There is no plan to increase product usage in our company.

I did not have the need to contact the product's support because the solution's documentation and FAQs help resolve problems. My company did not encounter any shoes, and because of this, we had to seek direct help from the support team.

The product's initial setup phase was simple and straightforward.

There is not much my company can do when it comes to the deployment part since our managed service providers use the SDKs provided by Google along with our company's keys for authentication purposes.

The solution is deployed on a managed cloud solution.

The solution can be deployed in five days.

The deployment phase can be done with the help of our company's in-house team, considering that it is a surprisingly easy process. Beginners who are new to the product can easily take care of the product's deployment phase.

Supabase can be considered a good option against Google Firebase.

Google Firebase is the first product my company used. My company had also done some research on Google products, after which we opted for Google Firebase. The product was able to cover most of our company's use cases. The product is also easy to use. My company did not have to look at the other services during our exploration research.

I use the solution for real-time data synchronization of applications. I use the tool to build native applications using React Native Firebase. Google Firebase integrates well with React Native Firebase. Google Firebase has me. It has a large online community, and it offers most of the features one would need to build an application.

Setting up Google Firebase for user authentication and management is quite straightforward and easy.

Tracking user engagement is possible with Google Firebase since it easily integrates with Google Analytics, and it is also easy to set it up inside applications. My company also uses Crashlytics, which is included in Google Firebase and is sometimes handy and useful.

There is nothing specific about how Firebase Cloud Messaging improves the way my company interacts with product users. My company uses the product since it easily fits into the stack of tools we use. The users don't feel anything about what our company does on the back end, and it also doesn't affect them.

Although my company has not experienced any bugs or crashes in production, we have tested the tool well enough. Once or twice, when there were crashes, reports from Firebase Crashlytics helped debug or pinpoint the location where the problem was and the reason why the problem arose.

Google Firebase has affected our company's uptime and scalability part since it has had a surprising impact on our development time. With the tool, my company is able to rapidly create prototype applications and roll them out for users for feedback, based on which we can make changes to improve the product.

The product helps my company to rapidly build prototypes for our projects and get inputs from our customers.

I rate the tool a ten out of ten.

I use the solution to streamline mobile application development.

I use Firestore for most of my database operations. It is already optimized. It's something you have to connect with the app and use. The performance is good. It is quite fast. I use most of the other features. I use the solution for authentication, database operations, and storage.

The solution also helps with analytics. Firebase offers encryption out of the box. We do not have to do it ourselves. We have lots of authentication providers that we can use, like email and password or Google sign-in. We even have anonymous authentication. We must choose the one that best suits us. The tool provides me with everything I need.

The product must support more complex queries. It is a NoSQL database. It is a collection of documents. Because of its design, the tool can't support some of our complex queries in SQL and other databases.

I have been using the solution for one to two years.

The tool is always up and running.

The tool is scalable for our requirements.

The initial configuration was very easy. The solution has a CLI tool that we can use to connect the application to Firebase. It is called FlutterFire. We can write a few commands, and our application is automatically connected to Firebase. Earlier, we used to configure everything. Now, it has improved a lot. The setup is very easy. It can be done within a few minutes.

The product is free.

Cassandra, Redis, and MongoDB are some of the competitors of the solution.

Overall, I rate the product a nine out of ten.

Google Firebase is more than just a database service. It is a complete platform by Google that is incredibly versatile for mobile and web app development.

The most valuable feature of Google Firebase is its user-friendliness. Since Firebase was the first database I used, it is hard for me to compare it to others. However, what stands out is how straightforward and easy it was to work with. Its simplicity makes it quite handy for my needs in app development. Firebase makes it incredibly easy to build relationships between tables and set up database structures. It feels like a seamless drag-and-drop experience, which saves a lot of time compared to starting from scratch with other MySQL services.

Google Firebase doesn't need significant improvements because it provides a complete package for databases, crash analytics, and reports. 

I have used Google Firebase for a short period of time while working on a few projects.

I wouldn't describe it as a highly scalable product. Firebase is more of a set of essential services provided by Google for building various applications. Its scalability depends on the specific services and resources you choose within Firebase to meet your application's needs.

I have not had any need to contact technical support.

The initial setup is fairly easy and it is done online. 

Google Firebase can be affordable when used in your own app, as many features have free tiers. However, if you are selling an app with extensive Firebase use, costs may go up. It's not too expensive, but it's crucial to pick a pricing plan that fits your business.

My advice to people who are considering using Firebase is to evaluate their app's needs to determine if Firebase is a suitable fit. Firebase is versatile and offers features beyond just databases, such as crash analytics, which can be incredibly helpful. It provides detailed insights into crashes, when they occur, and on which devices, making bug tracking and resolution much easier. Overall, I would rate it an eight out of ten.