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."The most valuable feature is the ease with which you can create a phishing server and use it."
"The solution is very stable."
"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."
"I like Kubernetes integration."
"The user interface is nice, and it is very easy to use. Anyone can use it."
"The customer support team are very responsive."
"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 solution is easy to set up."
"The user interface is very good and easy to navigate."
"What I like most about Google Firebase is that it's one of the easier options to host a website or app quickly."
"If there's data added to the solution, there's a good record of it so it's easy to track everything."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The product is easy to use."
"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."
"I found the flexibility of handling and dealing with database through EDL to be very useful."
"The scalability is good."
"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."
"I think something needs to be done in terms of technical support."
"The solution could improve by having integration with GitHub."
"I would like to see improvements to the logging and user interface. The verification process could be more streamlined."
"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"
"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."
"The solution's notification system could be much better."
"The product must support more complex queries."
"Their technical support needs to be enhanced with more support for customers."
"They have discontinued some very valuable features, including the Firebase UI that I used to log in."
"The platform's bandwidth is quite expensive. Its price could be better."
"Google Firebase's app testing feature for Android, where you can upload your APK, needs improvement because it's not working very well."
"I would like to have a facility for testing possible scenarios by writing dummy data and then doing different queries."
"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."
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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