Google Firebase vs vCloud Air comparison

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.”

vCloud Air is a public cloud platform built on the trusted foundation of vSphere, compatible with your on-premises data center, that includes infrastructure, disaster recovery, and various applications as service offerings. vCloud Air allows you to extend your workloads into the cloud with ease. You can migrate existing onsite virtual machines (VMs) to the public cloud or start up new application VMs directly in the cloud.