Compare DigitalOcean vs. Google Firebase
DigitalOcean is ranked 7th 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. DigitalOcean is rated 7.0, while Google Firebase is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of DigitalOcean writes "Has a good system but it should have better security and customer support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Firebase writes "Real-time change triggers and push notifications enhance our product functionality and offering". DigitalOcean is most compared with Google Firebase, Microsoft Azure and Alibaba Cloud, whereas Google Firebase is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS and DigitalOcean.
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The solution is very stable. | 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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I think something needs to be done in terms of technical support. | 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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The program is cheaper than others. | 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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| DigitalOcean has the fastest and most convenient cloud technology to help you easily and more efficiently manage your infrastructure so you can get back to coding. We provide all of our users with high-performance SSD Hard Drives, a flexible API, and the ability to select the nearest data center location. | Information Not Available |
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| jQuery Foundation, Pertino, TaskRabbit, Compose, InfluxDB, The Able Few | Fabulous, Pic Collage, Shazam, SkyScanner |
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No Data Available | Software R&D Company31% Comms Service Provider16% Media Company14% Manufacturing Company7% |
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