We performed a comparison between Google Firebase and Rackspace Cloud [EOL] 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)."I love Firebase's notifications, crash analytics, and bug tracking. It gives you detailed reporting about app usage and users."
"Google Analytics for Firebase is the best feature of the solution."
"The initial setup of Google Firebase is pretty straightforward."
"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."
"It has security rules to control database read/write operations in real-time."
"It is a stable solution...It is a very scalable solution."
"It is a very stable solution."
"The solution is useful for managing users and user authentication."
"There is easy integration with multiple providers and third-party services."
"Image backup is a valuable feature. Even though this is a common feature, it is very helpful for us."
"The most valuable feature for us is the support, which is really efficient."
"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."
"The solution could improve by providing an improved SDK tool and automatic indexing for databases."
"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."
"The only thing that I won't do on Firebase is the hosting side of things for a progressive web app because it feels like you actually still need to download the app first before you can actually get into the functionality of the app."
"We had some compatibility issues with Elixir."
"I would prefer Google Firebase to focus more on its integration capabilities since it is an area in the solution with certain shortcomings."
"Google Firebase could improve the ability to create our own reports, other than what's available on the dashboard. For example, if we want to customize the report or export the data, this is a large task."
"They have discontinued some very valuable features, including the Firebase UI that I used to log in."
"It doesn't offer Elastic IP like AWS. And also we can't configure our server based on region."
"It would be nice to have more built-in suites compared to others. It would enable easier integration."
Earn 20 points
Google Firebase is ranked 5th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 32 reviews while Rackspace Cloud [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS). Google Firebase is rated 8.4, while Rackspace Cloud [EOL] 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 Rackspace Cloud [EOL] writes "There is easy integration with multiple providers and third-party services". Google Firebase is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, DigitalOcean, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Alibaba Cloud, whereas Rackspace Cloud [EOL] is most compared with .
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