We performed a comparison between DigitalOcean 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."I like Kubernetes integration."
"It's been a good choice for us for some services. We generally have several deployments. For instance, for some static Angular applications, it was a clear choice to run them on Cloudflare, which performs very well in this context. All the assets go on DigitalOcean."
"The most outstanding aspect of DigitalOcean is its user interface and ease of use. Compared to more complex solutions, such as AWS, DigitalOcean's platform is highly intuitive and user-friendly."
"The customer support team are very responsive."
"The solution is very stable."
"The solution is easy to set up."
"The most valuable feature is the ease with which you can create a phishing server and use it."
"The user interface is nice, and it is very easy to use. Anyone can use it."
"I found the flexibility of handling and dealing with database through EDL to be very useful."
"The scalability is good."
"The most valuable feature I like is about the realtime. Updates are also very fast."
"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 most valuable feature of Google Firebase authentication and deployment."
"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."
"If there's data added to the solution, there's a good record of it so it's easy to track everything."
"I think something needs to be done in terms of technical support."
"The technical support for this solution could be improved."
"We found the solution to be a bit expensive."
"I would like to see an automation feature added to send emails out using the open-source solution."
"Other solutions are proving the monitoring feature, like AWS having GuardDuty and SAP having services for logs and monitoring. DigitalOcean doesn’t have any other benefits."
"The solution could improve by having integration with GitHub."
"The issue with DigitalOcean is primarily the latency. So, when you have a mixed system with some components staying here, and then we encounter network latency, it's not optimal. Our"
"I would like to see improvements to the logging and user interface. The verification process could be more streamlined."
"The product is not that cheap."
"I would prefer Google Firebase to focus more on its integration capabilities since it is an area in the solution with certain shortcomings."
"Google Cloud Functions (which is still a BETA version) needs to have more control over the uploaded functions. That is, it needs more options for controlling the functions itself."
"There was no way of knowing how the rise in traffic would impact the price."
"The initial setup is not exactly straightforward."
"The UI for the realtime database could be simplified."
"The solution could improve by providing an improved SDK tool and automatic indexing for databases."
"They have discontinued some very valuable features, including the Firebase UI that I used to log in."
DigitalOcean is ranked 11th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 9 reviews while Google Firebase is ranked 4th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 32 reviews. DigitalOcean is rated 8.4, while Google Firebase is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of DigitalOcean writes "Testing new systems is affordable. Backup/snapshots does not always restore properly". 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". DigitalOcean is most compared with Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Alibaba Cloud and SAP S4HANA on AWS, whereas Google Firebase is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Alibaba Cloud and Linode. See our DigitalOcean vs. Google Firebase report.
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