We performed a comparison between Google Firebase and Linode 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."Google Analytics for Firebase is the best feature of the solution."
"Firebase offers encryption out of the box."
"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 solution is useful for managing users and user authentication."
"The most valuable feature of Google Firebase authentication and deployment."
"Its initial setup process is easy."
"If there's data added to the solution, there's a good record of it so it's easy to track everything."
"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."
"I very much like the support that you get, and I think that it's excellent."
"The simplicity by which you can handle your inventory is one of the things I like the most."
"The creation of instances is very good, as is their interface which is not complex and is easy to use. With the dashboard it is easy to create a new instance and add your favorite things. You can add Debian, Ubuntu, or CentOS, or any flavor of operating system. You can select the RAM for your instance as well."
"The most valuable aspects of Linode are the virtual server and the clean server. I install what I need on it."
"Linode offers cost-effective pricing, and it enables me to swiftly deploy my services."
"They have a very nice web interface to allow you to manage and reorganize your server."
"When I started using Linode, I found its functionality easy to navigate, user-friendly and responsive to my needs. It provides clear reminders about services I'm not using, like DNS zones, which I appreciate."
"The ability to fire up a virtual machine, use it, and then kill it, is quite a valuable feature for me."
"I would prefer Google Firebase to focus more on its integration capabilities since it is an area in the solution with certain shortcomings."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"The product is not that cheap."
"We use Firebase for media processing and we are growing more. As we grow, the pricing goes high and it's high compared to competitors. The solution is expensive."
"The product must support more complex queries."
"The solution could improve by providing an improved SDK tool and automatic indexing for databases."
"Google Firebase should add extra functionality to do global delete and updates across your database."
"The cold start-up of the cloud function needs to speed up. For me personally, I'm not experienced in anything there, however, I've just read online it's a problem."
"They don't have role-based access control, which is problematic for us."
"Everything is up-to-date for a small business. But for big business, they need to improve certain things. For example, there should be better security."
"I would like to see more seamless integration with backup, although it's pretty easy to do."
"Before they changed the dashboard, I found some of the more granular options easier to find."
"Our primary concern is always the latency."
"It would be nice if they had more data centers in Latin America."
"I've had some difficulties with some of their IP addresses being banned by certain mail servers."
"The suitability of this solution depends on the features that you need. If you're an Uber-sized company then you're probably not going to want to start using Linode. If you are a large-sized organization then you're going to want to start using one of the bigger providers that gives you the scalability and the feature set that you are probably going to be needing in the future."
Google Firebase is ranked 5th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 32 reviews while Linode is ranked 6th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 27 reviews. Google Firebase is rated 8.4, while Linode is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Google Firebase writes "An application development solution that has a lot of services like storage, Firestore, and push notifications". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Linode writes "Straightforward to set up, helpful support, and the Object Storage is useful for system backups". Google Firebase is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, DigitalOcean and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), whereas Linode is most compared with Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Cloudflare and HashiCorp Nomad. See our Google Firebase vs. Linode report.
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