"I love Firebase's notifications, crash analytics, and bug tracking. It gives you detailed reporting about app usage and users."
"What I like most about Google Firebase is that it's one of the easier options to host a website or app quickly."
"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."
"If there's data added to the solution, there's a good record of it so it's easy to track everything."
"The most valuable features of Google Firebase have been Analytics, Remote Config, and Crashlytics. Additionally, a lot of companies have used push notifications which is important. There is little maintenance required."
"Google Firebase is one I like a lot because it gives us a little bit more power and accessibility when it comes to publishing apps a lot quicker and for the needs that we have."
"The solution is stable."
"The ELT versus ETL extract, transform and load versus extract, load, and then transform, the ELT method is what really sells SoftLayer."
"The solution needs to offer capabilities to work offline. Like Firestore, we should be able to do insertion, updating, and deletion offline."
"I would like to see faster data migration and some support for other languages in the next release."
"The solution could improve by providing an improved SDK tool and automatic indexing for databases."
"Firebase's real-time information isn't technically real-time. It takes a while to upload user activity into the app. It's not as fast as Datadog, the other solution we use."
"Google Firebase could improve the ability to create our own reports, other than what's available on the dashboard. For example, if we want to customize the report or export the data, this is a large task."
"The UI for the realtime database could be simplified."
"The only thing that I won't do on Firebase is the hosting side of things for a progressive web app because it feels like you actually still need to download the app first before you can actually get into the functionality of the app."
"For us, the versioning was an issue."
Google Firebase is ranked 6th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 7 reviews while IBM SoftLayer is ranked 16th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 1 review. Google Firebase is rated 7.8, while IBM SoftLayer is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Google Firebase writes "Drastically reduces processing time, good record keeping, and regularly updated". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM SoftLayer writes "Stable with excellent speed and agility". Google Firebase is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud, Alibaba Cloud and DigitalOcean, whereas IBM SoftLayer is most compared with Amazon AWS, Amazon S3 Glacier, Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage.
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