We performed a comparison between Google Firebase and IBM SoftLayer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Oracle and others in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)."Google Firebase has a lot of services like storage, Firestore, and push notifications."
"The scalability is good."
"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."
"We're able to use the solution in several processes."
"Google Analytics for Firebase is the best feature of the solution."
"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."
"I love Firebase's notifications, crash analytics, and bug tracking. It gives you detailed reporting about app usage and users."
"The ELT versus ETL extract, transform and load versus extract, load, and then transform, the ELT method is what really sells SoftLayer."
"The stability is the solution's most valuable aspect for our organization."
"Google Firebase's app testing feature for Android, where you can upload your APK, needs improvement because it's not working very well."
"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."
"Firebase uses JSON, and the storage format is very different to that of SQL. This does not allow for easy migrations."
"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 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."
"I would prefer Google Firebase to focus more on its integration capabilities since it is an area in the solution with certain shortcomings."
"The initial setup is not exactly straightforward."
"The UI for the realtime database could be simplified."
"The interface is hard to use for us. It should be simplified."
"For us, the versioning was an issue."
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Google Firebase is ranked 5th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 32 reviews while IBM SoftLayer is ranked 22nd in Public Cloud Storage Services. Google Firebase is rated 8.4, while IBM SoftLayer is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Google Firebase writes "An application development solution that has a lot of services like storage, Firestore, and push notifications". 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, DigitalOcean, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Alibaba Cloud, whereas IBM SoftLayer is most compared with Amazon AWS.
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