Google Firebase and VMware Cloud Foundation compete in the cloud services category. Google Firebase seems to have the upper hand in user-friendliness and mobile app integration, while VMware Cloud Foundation excels in enterprise capabilities and integration with various platforms.
Features: Google Firebase offers a real-time database, seamless mobile app integration, and built-in analytics that simplify backend tasks, making it particularly appealing for mobile developers. VMware Cloud Foundation provides robust automation, advanced lifecycle management, and scalable infrastructure options, which are ideal for managing complex enterprise environments.
Room for Improvement: Google Firebase could enhance logging capabilities, improve its function controls, and offer better SQL query support. VMware Cloud Foundation has room to improve its upgrade processes, offer more flexible integration, and address pricing complexities as identified in user reviews.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Google Firebase is noted for its easy deployment in public cloud environments, supported by comprehensive documentation and community support. VMware Cloud Foundation, while versatile in hybrid and on-premises environments, faces challenges related to technical support and documentation during deployment.
Pricing and ROI: Google Firebase provides cost-effective solutions with a generous free tier and reasonable pay-as-you-go pricing model, favored by startups for low initial expenses. VMware Cloud Foundation is viewed as an expensive but worthwhile investment for larger enterprises despite concerns over high licensing costs. Its integrated approach offers potential for significant long-term ROI.
VMware Cloud Foundation allows cost and time savings by quickly deploying infrastructure requests and integrating automatic ticketing and backup services.
In terms of ROI, although VMware Cloud Foundation is expensive, it saves time in most cases, which indirectly saves costs for users.
I do not currently find any other competitors that match its offering.
If the community doesn't have the answers, then I contact the Google Firebase team directly.
Based on my nine years of experience with VMware, I would evaluate their technical support as effective.
There are times when support is unclear, and even VMware support personnel may lack familiarity with certain parts, causing difficulties.
Our technical support team is capable of providing support on the operating system side.
It can handle all tiers of the market effectively.
Google also has some other cloud services, but when we compare Google Firebase, it is not as scalable.
I would rate the scalability of Google Firebase as eight because I miss some features from MS SQL, particularly the SQL functions.
VMware Cloud Foundation supports scalability and company growth.
When more hosts are added, performance goes slow.
In terms of scalability, I also rate VMware Cloud Foundation as an eight out of ten.
In our company, we have prototypes on Google Firebase and productions on AWS Cloud.
If one component fails to operate in a timely manner, the entire infrastructure can go down because everything is interconnected.
The stability of VMware Cloud Foundation is very high.
I am currently satisfied with the stability of VMware Cloud Foundation, though having started only two to three months ago, I am still in the monitoring phase.
Since Google Firebase is a NoSQL platform, areas for improvement include enhancing query functionalities to be more equivalent to SQL, like MS SQL.
Automation testing with mobile devices could be improved, especially in regression testing to ensure that new feature launches do not affect other features.
Each user needs deep knowledge of every aspect of virtualization.
VMware Broadcom needs to include auto resource allocation at the VM levels.
The maintenance cost has increased significantly, especially after Broadcom acquired VMware, with a shift from socket-based licensing to core-based licensing.
They could have implemented credits based on usage so that users would be able to easily calculate the pricing and provide it to customers.
Google Firebase offers a reasonable pricing structure.
The cost has become very high, especially after Broadcom's acquisition, altering the licensing model to a more expensive core-based system.
The price is quite higher than some other vendors.
VMware Cloud Foundation is quite expensive when compared to its competitors, but it does save time, which in turn saves money.
A real-time database.
What I appreciate most about Google Firebase is the speed, accuracy, and security it offers.
It allows for pre-launch testing without publishing it on Google Play right away.
With VMware Cloud Foundation, auto-deployment is possible by simply right-clicking and assigning a specific DHCP IP, enabling physical to vCenter level communication for automatic VM deployment.
All features of VMware Cloud Foundation are valuable to us, as it covers every industry standard protocol and requirement protocol.
VMware Cloud Foundation allows for extensive customization, aligning with our customer requirements.
Google Firebase is a stable, reliable, and scalable mobile platform that enables you to quickly develop apps, accelerate them, and monitor their performance.
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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.”
VMware Cloud Foundation makes it easy to deploy and run a hybrid cloud. VMware Cloud Foundation provides integrated cloud infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, and security) and cloud management services to run enterprise applications in both private and public environments.
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