Compare Alibaba Cloud vs. Google Firebase
Alibaba Cloud is ranked 13th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 1 review while Google Firebase is ranked 3rd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 6 reviews. Alibaba Cloud is rated 6.0, while Google Firebase is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Alibaba Cloud writes "Good pricing and security, but lacks decent performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Firebase writes "Real-time change triggers and push notifications enhance our product functionality and offering". Alibaba Cloud is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Google Firebase and DigitalOcean, whereas Google Firebase is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS and DigitalOcean.
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The cost of hosting the solution is very reasonable. It's quite inexpensive. | 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 user interface is very good and easy to navigate. The most valuable feature I like is about the realtime. Updates are also very fast. I found the flexibility of handling and dealing with database through EDL to be very useful. The main feature for us is that the tools are all in one place and that you don't need to bother with the backend system and the infrastructure. It has security rules to control database read/write operations in real-time. |
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From a performance point of view, Huawei and Azure are faster. Alibaba isn't as good. | 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. 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. Their technical support needs to be enhanced with more support for customers. There was no way of knowing how the rise in traffic would impact the price. Firebase uses JSON, and the storage format is very different to that of SQL. This does not allow for easy migrations. |
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Information Not Available | The monthly cost is based on writing data and queries to the database. It is not easy to calculate the cost per copy, use or if the load rose dramatically we did not know how that would impact the final price. |
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Views 943 Comparisons 855 Reviews 1 Average Words per Review 391 Avg. Rating 6.0 | Views 12,311 Comparisons 10,324 Reviews 6 Average Words per Review 384 Avg. Rating 8.5 |
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Alibaba Cloud offers a comprehensive suite of cloud computing services to support growing enterprises worldwide, including data storage, relational databases, big-data processing, and content delivery networks. | Information Not Available |
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| Schneider Electric, BorderX Lab, Royal Philips, Catchpoint, Conversant, Blogmint | Fabulous, Pic Collage, Shazam, SkyScanner |
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No Data Available | Software R&D Company28% Comms Service Provider18% Media Company15% K 12 Educational Company Or School7% |
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