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."It is a scalable product. So, scaling up or scaling down is possible."
"The installation is easy."
"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"
"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."
"What's good about Alibaba Cloud is its database service. It's also good in the virtual machine area."
"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."
"Allows us to create functions without any infrastructure apart from the Google App Engine."
"It is a stable solution...It is a very scalable solution."
"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 Realtime Database feature is the most important for us since we are able to see changes in the database the moment they are happening."
"The initial setup of Google Firebase is pretty straightforward."
"The most valuable features of Google Firebase have been Analytics, Remote Config, and Crashlytics. Additionally, a lot of companies have used push notifications which is important. There is little maintenance required."
"The most valuable features of Google Firebase are its database, noSQL database, file storage, authentication, and notifications."
"The most valuable feature of Google Firebase authentication and deployment."
"The solution needs to improve its graphical user interface."
"Alibaba Cloud's initial setup is somewhat complex."
"Alibaba Cloud needs to increase availability in Thailand."
"The solution name is not favorable in some markets and could cause us some problems gaining customers."
"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."
"The flexibility of the solution could be improved."
"It is not robust."
"The user experience must be improved."
"The notifications must be made a little bit better."
"The UI for the realtime database could be simplified."
"Google Firebase's app testing feature for Android, where you can upload your APK, needs improvement because it's not working very well."
"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."
"The initial setup is not exactly straightforward."
"In Google Firebase, reporting is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required to be made in the future."
"We had some compatibility issues with Elixir."
"The platform's bandwidth is quite expensive. Its price could be better."
Alibaba Cloud is ranked 9th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 16 reviews while Google Firebase is ranked 5th 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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