We performed a comparison between Google Firebase and Virtustream xStream 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)."Firebase offers encryption out of the box."
"It is a very stable solution."
"Allows us to create functions without any infrastructure apart from the Google App Engine."
"It has security rules to control database read/write operations in real-time."
"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 most valuable features of Google Firebase are its database, noSQL database, file storage, authentication, and notifications."
"It is a stable solution...It is a very scalable solution."
"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 solution has encryption which we did not have before."
"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."
"Their technical support needs to be enhanced with more support for customers."
"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."
"Firebase's real-time information isn't technically real-time. It takes a while to upload user activity into the app. It's not as fast as Datadog, the other solution we use."
"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."
"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 needs to offer capabilities to work offline. Like Firestore, we should be able to do insertion, updating, and deletion offline."
"They have discontinued some very valuable features, including the Firebase UI that I used to log in."
"Our account representative was inexperienced, they could improve on how they are managing accounts."
Earn 20 points
Google Firebase is ranked 5th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 32 reviews while Virtustream xStream is ranked 20th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS). Google Firebase is rated 8.4, while Virtustream xStream is rated 9.0. 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 Virtustream xStream writes "Improves efficiencies, has encryption, and great mission-critical customer support". Google Firebase is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, DigitalOcean, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Alibaba Cloud, whereas Virtustream xStream is most compared with Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS.
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