We performed a comparison between Google Firebase, Microsoft Azure, and Rackspace Cloud [EOL] 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)."It is a very stable solution."
"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."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature I like is about the realtime. Updates are also very fast."
"It has security rules to control database read/write operations in real-time."
"The most beautiful feature of Google Firebase is that it gives you a lot of functionalities out of the box, without you having to develop or having to complete a solution. For example, identity management is integrated, and security is out of the box, particularly security for the user and the ability of each user to see his data. I also like that Google Firebase has a really good performance and is comparable to MongoDB. It's on the same level, and sometimes, it's on an even higher level than MongoDB. Other functions that Google Firebase has that I find valuable include information dissemination, mail automation, and SMS, available out of the box. Another valuable feature of the solution is that it allows you to develop some functionalities on the server side, so you can write JavaScript functions on the server side and use those functions quite easily. Google Firebase gives you almost a full backend environment out of the box without you having to do any deployments or a lot of administration because all administration is given out of the box."
"Firebase offers encryption out of the box."
"Google Firebase has a lot of services like storage, Firestore, and push notifications."
"The most valuable feature is the single sign-on with multifactor authentication."
"Compute (App service, and virtual machine scale sets): The ability to manage Windows and Linus virtual machines."
"It is easy to use and flexible."
"The automated connectors to some of our critical enterprise systems are an important feature. These are very large, critical, global HCM systems."
"The solution is similar to a plug-and-play system, it is easy to use."
"The product is rather stable. We haven't had any issues with it in that sense."
"The solution is easy to use and flexible."
"It's a cloud-based application, so installation is straightforward and doesn't take much time."
"There is easy integration with multiple providers and third-party services."
"The most valuable feature for us is the support, which is really efficient."
"Image backup is a valuable feature. Even though this is a common feature, it is very helpful for us."
"Integrations and extensions offered by the product are quite limited presently."
"I rate the support from Google Firebase a four out of five."
"The platform's bandwidth is quite expensive. Its price could be better."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"The solution needs to offer capabilities to work offline. Like Firestore, we should be able to do insertion, updating, and deletion offline."
"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."
"Firebase uses JSON, and the storage format is very different to that of SQL. This does not allow for easy migrations."
"Google Firebase's app testing feature for Android, where you can upload your APK, needs improvement because it's not working very well."
"The interface for configuring the environment is not very intuitive. Certain things are at different places, and it is not easy to navigate. They should have a more transparent licensing model. Currently, Microsoft's licensing is a bit clunky, and it keeps changing depending on the type of subscription you have. Different features are included, and sometimes, it is very hard to figure out the right licensing. So, the commercial aspect of the licensing can be improved, and they can make it easier to understand all the features that are included."
"Technical support could be better. They need to be more responsive."
"Virtual networks might be improved by adding more rules for the validation of protocols and peripheral elements in security assurance."
"The deployment was quite complex."
"There are multiple DevOps solutions and tools available in Microsoft Azure, but most of the time they are either in the build mode, meaning you don't get complete support for them because they are either making changes, or changing the names of the particular services. Sometimes, services vanish from the portal. We are not able to see that. I think they actually change the names of the services."
"Performance could be improved."
"The cost management and billing section features could be improved."
"The pricing criteria can be improved with broken-down terms that can be understood easily."
"It would be nice to have more built-in suites compared to others. It would enable easier integration."
"It doesn't offer Elastic IP like AWS. And also we can't configure our server based on region."
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