We performed a comparison between Alibaba Cloud and Google Firebase based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product's initial setup phase was easy for me since I had a background in cloud products."
"The most valuable feature of Alibaba Cloud is the communication it allows between two servers."
"Feature-wise, it provides many features. ECS, VM, SP, bucket object storage, and databases are the most valuable."
"Alibaba support is responsive. When we create tickets in the Alibaba portal, they usually respond online or call me in five minutes."
"We use the solution to run VMs."
"It's easy to use, cheaper than other solutions, and more secure."
"The cost of hosting the solution is very reasonable. It's quite inexpensive."
"ECS is the most valuable feature of the solution."
"The product’s most valuable features are integration and hosting."
"The most valuable feature of Google Firebase authentication and deployment."
"Its simplicity makes it quite handy for my needs in app development."
"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 product is easy to use."
"The most valuable features of Google Firebase are its database, noSQL database, file storage, authentication, and notifications."
"If you are selling an app with extensive Firebase use, costs may go up."
"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."
"Alibaba Cloud has some problems related to latency and connection issues. If you go for a cloud solution provider, you will need to access the Internet, which may result in latency and bandwidth issues, leading to slowness in operations."
"From a performance point of view, Huawei and Azure are faster. Alibaba isn't as good."
"Users use websites as a tutorial. However, the Alibaba Cloud website has the content, and the scripts are copied from Amazon Web Services. We had received customer feedback where the customer asked us to get formulate original content instead of copying from Amazon Web Services. It’s very odd and awkward."
"Alibaba Cloud's initial setup is somewhat complex."
"The solution needs to improve its graphical user interface."
"The majority of the tools and processes, in general, have a lot of room for improvement."
"A big area for improvement in Alibaba Cloud is its support. Another area for improvement in Alibaba Cloud is SDK-based service because sometimes, the SDKs don't work correctly. Support for API-based services also needs improvement in Alibaba Cloud because, at the moment, it's not that stable."
"It is not robust."
"I rate the support from Google Firebase a four out of five."
"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."
"One of the challenges I was facing when I was using it was the library called Google Dialogflow which allows you to connect your chatbot with an intent. So there is so much adding when you are trying to connect it with your service because you have to do a lot of repetition writing a new intent, putting it step by set so it is good to escape. I believe it should be flexible and dedicate the intents based on the relating and to write a lesser code when doing that."
"Their technical support needs to be enhanced with more support for customers."
"There was no way of knowing how the rise in traffic would impact the price."
"Google Firebase should add extra functionality to do global delete and updates across your database."
"We had some compatibility issues with Elixir."
"The solution could improve by providing an improved SDK tool and automatic indexing for databases."
Alibaba Cloud is ranked 8th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 17 reviews while Google Firebase is ranked 4th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 32 reviews. Alibaba Cloud is rated 7.4, while Google Firebase is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Alibaba Cloud writes "The solution is useful for application development, but the user interface and user experience must be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Firebase writes "An application development solution that has a lot of services like storage, Firestore, and push notifications". Alibaba Cloud is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and DigitalOcean, whereas Google Firebase is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, DigitalOcean, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Linode. See our Alibaba Cloud vs. Google Firebase report.
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