GeneXus vs Google Firebase comparison

GeneXus and Google are both solutions in the Mobile Development Platforms category. Additionally, 100% of GeneXus users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of Google users who would recommend it.

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100% willing to recommend

Google Firebase

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91% willing to recommend

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Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score

7.1

GeneXus offers high ROI for large companies, excels in banking apps, and is effective for both extensive and limited user systems.

Sentiment score

6.7

Google Firebase is cost-effective for large apps, with valuable features and manageable for small teams, despite some expenses.

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

7.6

GeneXus customer service is fast, knowledgeable, cooperative, usually responding within 24 hours, and generally rated highly by users.

Sentiment score

7.1

Users rarely need support due to excellent documentation and community resources, but views on direct support vary.

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If the community doesn't have the answers, then I contact the Google Firebase team directly.

Ariel Mondejar

IT specialist at CUADRO OCHO INC

I do not currently find any other competitors that match its offering.

El Yusron

DIV head at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

8.4

GeneXus is scalable and adaptable, supporting growth from small projects to large systems with high ratings for ease and efficiency.

Sentiment score

6.8

Firebase is scalable and flexible, though some users face challenges with pricing and configuration as usage increases.

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It can handle all tiers of the market effectively.

El Yusron

DIV head at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Google also has some other cloud services, but when we compare Google Firebase, it is not as scalable.

Sameer Kulkarni

Chief Technical Advisor at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

I would rate the scalability of Google Firebase as eight because I miss some features from MS SQL, particularly the SQL functions.

Ariel Mondejar

IT specialist at CUADRO OCHO INC

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

8.1

GeneXus offers high stability with bi-monthly upgrades, rated 8-10 by users, best suited for simpler front-end applications.

Sentiment score

8.0

Google Firebase is praised for its stability and reliability, with minor concerns about downtime and performance by some users.

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In our company, we have prototypes on Google Firebase and productions on AWS Cloud.

Sameer Kulkarni

Chief Technical Advisor at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

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Room For Improvement

GeneXus requires better front-end, training, security, integration, collaboration, market awareness, UI, code speed, cost, community, alerts, performance, and language support.

Users want improved control, logging, queries, pricing, support, interface, documentation, and integration for better Cloud Function performance.

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Since Google Firebase is a NoSQL platform, areas for improvement include enhancing query functionalities to be more equivalent to SQL, like MS SQL.

Ariel Mondejar

IT specialist at CUADRO OCHO INC

Automation testing with mobile devices could be improved, especially in regression testing to ensure that new feature launches do not affect other features.

El Yusron

DIV head at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

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Setup Cost

GeneXus offers costly multi-plan licenses but justifies the price by replacing multiple developers and including maintenance and upgrades.

Google Firebase offers a free tier and scalable pricing, but users should carefully manage costs due to potential fluctuations.

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They could have implemented credits based on usage so that users would be able to easily calculate the pricing and provide it to customers.

Sameer Kulkarni

Chief Technical Advisor at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Google Firebase offers a reasonable pricing structure.

El Yusron

DIV head at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

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Valuable Features

GeneXus offers rapid deployment, seamless tech integration, error detection, multi-language support, automation, and a user-friendly architecture.

Firebase excels with real-time database, authentication, cloud functions, push notifications, and scalability, ideal for rapid app development.

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A real-time database.

Sameer Kulkarni

Chief Technical Advisor at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

These features are invaluable for mobile development and ensuring smooth internal operations.

El Yusron

DIV head at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

What I appreciate most about Google Firebase is the speed, accuracy, and security it offers.

Ariel Mondejar

IT specialist at CUADRO OCHO INC

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Categories and Ranking

GeneXus

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Mobile Development Platforms (10th), Low-Code Development Platforms (19th)

Google Firebase

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) (5th)

Featured Reviews

XavierEspinoza

Internal System Coordinator at Red CEDIA

Offers a simplified architecture with outstanding integration capabilities

The integration capabilities of GeneXus are highly valuable for our organization. The metadata obtained within the logic of different systems is also vital. Due to the solution, our company team doesn't have to work with multiple languages and integrations can be made with C Sharp. JavaScript can also be used with GeneXus, the tool takes charge of all the rest and has a simple architecture. The solution can be used out of the box without facing any issues and nothing much needs to be done with frameworks. In our case we need to use Python with GeneXus, we use Ironpython to embed python code in C# .

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Sameer Kulkarni

Chief Technical Advisor at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Leverage rapid prototype development for application building

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. The concept that the more you use, the more you have to pay could have been much better. They could have implemented credits based on usage so that users would be able to easily calculate the pricing and provide it to customers. I am the co-founder and CTO of the company called Aiwox (A I W O O X). We have numerous projects for mobile application development, and we have shifted from Google Firebase to Supabase because there is a fixed price for Supabase. Supabase is built on top of AWS, and it provides a very good pricing model. Some of the credits are free, and once you reach a certain limit, you know the charges. The second improvement area is related to SQL. They provide the real-time database, which is very good, and they have gradually started including PostgreSQL, which is a relational database, but it is not production-ready yet. I may be incorrect; perhaps they have released something new, but PostgreSQL database real-time database remains a challenge with Google Firebase.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

Energy/Utilities Company

Outsourcing Company

Comms Service Provider

University

11%

Comms Service Provider

Computer Software Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	12
Large Enterprise	2

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	29
Midsize Enterprise	10
Large Enterprise	8

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with GeneXus?

GeneXus needs to be more consistent in functionality without any errors. Code generation is highly time-consuming for GeneXus, but in some cases, it saves time as well. Some errors will take too lo...

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What is your primary use case for GeneXus?

Our company uses the latest version of GeneXus. The solution is used in our company to develop various enterprise systems, and GeneXus is used as an integrator, which further facilitates low-cost d...

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What advice do you have for others considering GeneXus?

The tool's use case depends upon the requirements. The solution is ideal for integrations to modernize systems. GeneXus is also used in a site to develop systems with functional programming for big...

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How does Microsoft Azure compare to Google Firebase?

I would recommend Google Firebase instead of Microsoft Azure, simply for the array of features that it has to offer. In particular, the Firebase library grants you access to a shared data structure...

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Looking to compare Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, and Microsoft Azure

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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What do you like most about Google Firebase?

Google Analytics for Firebase is the best feature of the solution.

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Overview

What is GeneXus? GeneXus™ is the best Low-Code Platform that you don't know yet.

It's a Software Development Platform that simplifies and automates the tasks of creating and evolving enterprise applications and multi-channel user-experiences. Great Advantages:

- Higher productivity, with automatic maintenance & evolution
- Multi-Experience, we continuously create new code generators
- Agile, incremental approach, with fully functional prototypes
- Easier to learn, one single language to cover all technologies
- Future-proof, we've been around for 30 years, evolving for you

Key Differentiators against the competition:

- No runtime fees, we charge by developer
- Best theoretical framework, which allows us to evolve
- Best coverage in the market: Most technologies, most languages, most markets and industries
- We run on-premise or on the cloud
- Multiple starting points depending on the type of company you work in, with products for Students, Startups, ISVs, Corporate Development, and SAP technologies

GeneXus uses Artificial Intelligence techniques to create software, enabling truly incremental development of apps, providing a low-code, future-proof development platform for the leading execution platforms and languages, and the most popular DBMS.

GeneXus

Google Firebase is a stable, reliable, and scalable mobile platform that enables you to quickly develop apps, accelerate them, and monitor their performance.

With Google Firebase You Can

Build and run successful apps
Scale globally
Monitor app quality and performance with little effort
Boost user engagement

Google Firebase Features:

Crashlytic
Automatic updates
Fast and easy deployment
Access to Cloud Firestore
Multi-platform sign-in authentication
Flexible drop-in UI
Real-time database
Remote configuration
Firebase machine learning
Cloud messaging
Advanced message targeting
Push messages
Error monitoring

SDKs supported by Google Firebase:

Web SDK
iOS SDK
Android SDK
Admin SDK

Benefits of Google Firebase:

Fast implementation: Google Firebase makes it possible for you to set up your authentication system quickly, using minimal code.
Comprehensive security: With Google Firebase, your systems remain secured; It is backed by Google Sign-in, Chrome Password Manager, and also Smart Lock.
Machine learning capabilities: Firebase offers machine learning capabilities that help you deploy and train custom models.
Eliminate the need to manage servers: Because Google Firebase offers cloud functions, it enables you to run your mobile backend code without having to also manage your servers.
Authentication for any platform: Google’s Firebase authentication makes the sign-in process easier by providing an end-to-end identity solution that works with any platform.
Customized notifications: With cloud messaging, you can customize alerts, defining how and when they are sent, what sounds they should make, and can also select the expiration date for each message. In addition, it gives you the ability to track custom conversion events.
Fast and secure web hosting: Firebase makes it possible for you to have easy and secure web hosting with fast content delivery. Firebase hosting also provides free SSL certificates.
Cloud storage: With Google Firebase you have access to cloud storage that supports robust uploads and downloads, can handle user-generated content, and provides simple and intuitive access control.
Developer-friendly: Developers prefer to use Firebase because it lets them focus on creating frontend code for mobile applications rather than having to concentrate on backend code.

Reviews from Real Users

PeerSpot user Nilakshi S., technical team lead at AuthentiCode says, “The solution is very stable and very reliable. There aren't any bugs or glitches.”

"What I like most about Google Firebase is that it's one of the easier options to host a website or app quickly," says Craig F., application development manager at a financial services firm.

A senior developer at a consultancy says, “The documentation for Google Firebase is great. Also, what I like about it is the integration to Android, which is the reason I went with Firebase.”

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Sample Customers

Canal de Panamá, Gerdau, Coca-Cola, Mercado Libre, DHL, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, TECNISA, Mexican Polak Group, Ferrovalle, Canon, Azteca, KPMG, TURBUS, Santander, BBVA

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