We performed a comparison between Google Firebase and IBM SoftLayer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Oracle and others in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)."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."
"Google Firebase has a lot of services like storage, Firestore, and push notifications."
"The solution is useful for managing users and user authentication."
"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."
"Firebase offers encryption out of the box."
"The scalability is good."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"If there's data added to the solution, there's a good record of it so it's easy to track everything."
"The ELT versus ETL extract, transform and load versus extract, load, and then transform, the ELT method is what really sells SoftLayer."
"The stability is the solution's most valuable aspect for our organization."
"I would prefer Google Firebase to focus more on its integration capabilities since it is an area in the solution with certain shortcomings."
"The platform's bandwidth is quite expensive. Its price could be better."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"The solution could improve by providing an improved SDK tool and automatic indexing for databases."
"Integrations and extensions offered by the product are quite limited presently."
"In Google Firebase, reporting is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required to be made in the future."
"The notifications must be made a little bit better."
"Firebase uses JSON, and the storage format is very different to that of SQL. This does not allow for easy migrations."
"For us, the versioning was an issue."
"The interface is hard to use for us. It should be simplified."
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Google Firebase is ranked 5th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 32 reviews while IBM SoftLayer is ranked 22nd in Public Cloud Storage Services. Google Firebase is rated 8.4, while IBM SoftLayer is rated 8.6. 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 IBM SoftLayer writes "Stable with excellent speed and agility". Google Firebase is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, DigitalOcean, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Alibaba Cloud, whereas IBM SoftLayer is most compared with Amazon AWS.
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