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."We use the product for storage and as a VPN."
"Feature-wise, it provides many features. ECS, VM, SP, bucket object storage, and databases are the most valuable."
"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"
"The most valuable feature of Alibaba Cloud is the communication it allows between two servers."
"It's easy to use, cheaper than other solutions, and more secure."
"Alibaba Cloud allows for easy setup of mirror sites and backup servers, ensuring data redundancy and high availability."
"We use the solution to run VMs."
"ECS is the most valuable feature of the solution."
"What I like most about Google Firebase is that it's one of the easier options to host a website or app quickly."
"Allows us to create functions without any infrastructure apart from the Google App Engine."
"I love Firebase's notifications, crash analytics, and bug tracking. It gives you detailed reporting about app usage and users."
"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."
"The scalability is good."
"I found the flexibility of handling and dealing with database through EDL to be very useful."
"The product’s most valuable features are integration and hosting."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"From the improvement point of view, there are lots of issues that we are facing. In all the areas, it seems like it is not mature. For example, a customer wants to provision some VM that has many configurations. If I want to show the price to the customer, it is very challenging. The SDK that Alibaba has provided is very limited. We can have the pricing for VM, but we cannot have pricing for RDS databases or some other services. This is a big concern area for us. They should put more effort into the SDKs or APIs that they provide, for example, pricing APIs or pricing SDK. They do not provide support for most of the services they provide. For example, if I want to get the price of MongoDB, that SDK is not available from Alibaba. Similarly, robust API support is required for S3, which is OSS or Object Storage, so that we can read the data in a faster manner, for example, in chunks. We have raised many issues with the Alibaba support team, and they have been fixing the issues after we report them."
"Alibaba Cloud needs to increase availability in Thailand."
"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."
"It is not robust."
"The solution needs to improve its graphical user interface."
"From a performance point of view, Huawei and Azure are faster. Alibaba isn't as good."
"The majority of the tools and processes, in general, have a lot of room for improvement."
"The user experience must be improved."
"The UI for the realtime database could be simplified."
"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."
"Firebase uses JSON, and the storage format is very different to that of SQL. This does not allow for easy migrations."
"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."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"The solution needs to offer capabilities to work offline. Like Firestore, we should be able to do insertion, updating, and deletion offline."
"I would like to have a facility for testing possible scenarios by writing dummy data and then doing different queries."
"We had some compatibility issues with Elixir."
Alibaba Cloud is ranked 9th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 15 reviews while Google Firebase is ranked 5th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 32 reviews. Alibaba Cloud is rated 7.2, 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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