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 installation is easy."
"It's easy to use, cheaper than other solutions, and more secure."
"Alibaba support is responsive. When we create tickets in the Alibaba portal, they usually respond online or call me in five minutes."
"Flexibility and costs were probably the most important thing for us. The cost was one of the big factors for choosing Alibaba Cloud relative to other cloud solutions, especially in Asia"
"I rate Alibaba Cloud's scalability an eight out of ten."
"Alibaba Cloud allows for easy setup of mirror sites and backup servers, ensuring data redundancy and high availability."
"What's good about Alibaba Cloud is its database service. It's also good in the virtual machine area."
"The most valuable feature of Alibaba Cloud is the communication it allows between two servers."
"If you are selling an app with extensive Firebase use, costs may go up."
"Its simplicity makes it quite handy for my needs in app development."
"The scalability is good."
"Allows us to create functions without any infrastructure apart from the Google App Engine."
"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."
"It is a stable solution...It is a very scalable solution."
"The most valuable features of Google Firebase are its database, noSQL database, file storage, authentication, and notifications."
"It is a very stable solution."
"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."
"From a performance point of view, Huawei and Azure are faster. Alibaba isn't as good."
"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."
"Alibaba Cloud's initial setup is somewhat complex."
"The support offered by the tool is ridiculous."
"I think that sometimes the customer service for Alibaba Cloud is inefficient.... Sometimes it's hard to reach out to them."
"The solution name is not favorable in some markets and could cause us some problems gaining customers."
"The solution should have more integration."
"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."
"Google Firebase should add extra functionality to do global delete and updates across your database."
"There's always room for improvement in every product, and the major improvement that's needed in Google Firebase is its simplification, particularly for unsavvy users or non-technical users. If you're not tech-savvy, it would be very difficult for you to use the functions of the solution and understand its security rules. If you want even non-technical people to find it easy to use Google Firebase, it should be simplified because the difference between screen-derived management and code-derived management isn't complex, so simplification wouldn't be an issue."
"Firebase uses JSON, and the storage format is very different to that of SQL. This does not allow for easy migrations."
"Their technical support needs to be enhanced with more support for customers."
"The solution's notification system could be much better."
"Google Firebase's app testing feature for Android, where you can upload your APK, needs improvement because it's not working very well."
"Firebase's real-time information isn't technically real-time. It takes a while to upload user activity into the app. It's not as fast as Datadog, the other solution we use."
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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