We performed a comparison between Google Cloud and Google Firebase based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Google Cloud is user friendly and reliable. The most valuable feature is the security of Google Cloud."
"There is no downtime. It is very reliable."
"The automatic sync between my mobile device data and photos to the cloud is the most valuable feature."
"The stability of Google Cloud is currently good."
"Google Cloud has low downtime."
"Google Cloud is 100 percent stable."
"It's robust, and it has a wide reach in terms of office applications including storage."
"Google Cloud is very user-friendly."
"The initial setup of Google Firebase is pretty straightforward."
"Google Firebase has a lot of services like storage, Firestore, and push notifications."
"The main feature for us is that the tools are all in one place and that you don't need to bother with the backend system and the infrastructure."
"This solution supports our real time database. We also use it for AB testing and for its Google Cloud functions. We make use of Crashlytics and reporting on details."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"It is a stable solution...It is a very scalable solution."
"I found the flexibility of handling and dealing with database through EDL to be very useful."
"The user interface is very good and easy to navigate."
"I would like to see more code generation features that enable you to take user input in simple English and automatically convert it to code."
"I would like to see Google Cloud become more competitive when it comes to price."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"Security features could be improved."
"I consider Azure more secure than Google and Amazon because of all its certifications, but Google is secure enough and improving."
"The product should be more cost-effective."
"The price could improve. Every customer would agree, that they would like the price to be reduced."
"The price can be lowered significantly."
"One of the challenges I was facing when I was using it was the library called Google Dialogflow which allows you to connect your chatbot with an intent. So there is so much adding when you are trying to connect it with your service because you have to do a lot of repetition writing a new intent, putting it step by set so it is good to escape. I believe it should be flexible and dedicate the intents based on the relating and to write a lesser code when doing that."
"I would like to see faster data migration and some support for other languages in the next release."
"We use Firebase for media processing and we are growing more. As we grow, the pricing goes high and it's high compared to competitors. The solution is expensive."
"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."
"The product is not that cheap."
"I would like to have a facility for testing possible scenarios by writing dummy data and then doing different queries."
"The initial setup is not exactly straightforward."
"The product must support more complex queries."
Google Cloud is ranked 4th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 66 reviews while Google Firebase is ranked 5th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 32 reviews. Google Cloud is rated 8.2, while Google Firebase is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Google Cloud writes "Great for big data with off-the-charts scalability for storage and databases". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Firebase writes "An application development solution that has a lot of services like storage, Firestore, and push notifications". Google Cloud is most compared with Alibaba Cloud, Linode, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and OpenShift, whereas Google Firebase is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, DigitalOcean, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Alibaba Cloud. See our Google Cloud vs. Google Firebase report.
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