Google Firebase Valuable Features

Serge Dahdouh - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at Les Roches International School of Hotel Management

I use Google Firebase mainly for applications. Google Firebase has competitors like Supabase and PostgreSQL. Google Firebase has a lot of services like storage, Firestore, and push notifications. The solution also has a feature where you can change the parameters online. Other products in the market cannot compare with the many services Google Firebase provides for application development.

Also, the solution's deployment for the App Store is very easy with the swing Firebase. Mostly, 90% of people use Google Firebase because of its availability in many places. The solution is very fast, scalable, and dynamic. If you have a lot of clients, the solution will automatically scale up to the number of your clients.

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Salomon Metre - PeerSpot reviewer
Laboratory Assistant at Strathmore University

I use Firestore for most of my database operations. It is already optimized. It's something you have to connect with the app and use. The performance is good. It is quite fast. I use most of the other features. I use the solution for authentication, database operations, and storage.

The solution also helps with analytics. Firebase offers encryption out of the box. We do not have to do it ourselves. We have lots of authentication providers that we can use, like email and password or Google sign-in. We even have anonymous authentication. We must choose the one that best suits us. The tool provides me with everything I need.

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Min HtetOo - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Marketing Officer at Soft Intelligence

The product is easy to use.

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March 2024
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Simon Buckingham - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner/Creative & Technical Director at Icecandy

The most valuable features of Google Firebase are its database, noSQL database, file storage, authentication, and notifications.

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HaiPham - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at sea-solutión

We're able to use the solution in several processes.

For example, we developed a mobile app, and in the mobile app, we developed an authentication service for authentication for a login feature. And we use real-time for charts and Firestore to store data, and remote config to do some application settings remotely. 

For another project, we use it in a rather similar way. However, in this scale, we use the cloud function for the API and use Firestore as a database.

It's also great for web hosting, analysis, and CRAFTalytics that we use to measure the craft of the app.

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Zain Omer - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer (Kony-Temenos | Android) at Xpert Digital

The most valuable feature of Google Firebase is its user-friendliness. Since Firebase was the first database I used, it is hard for me to compare it to others. However, what stands out is how straightforward and easy it was to work with. Its simplicity makes it quite handy for my needs in app development. Firebase makes it incredibly easy to build relationships between tables and set up database structures. It feels like a seamless drag-and-drop experience, which saves a lot of time compared to starting from scratch with other MySQL services.

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AA
Programmer at NAFDAC

The authentification is very valuable to me. 

There are several server functions that are valuable to my use case. 

It's easy to use.

The documentation is very extensive. 

It's stable. 

The cost is reasonable. 

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AC
Director at S4Sourcing

The most valuable feature of the solution is that it has built-in accelerators, which makes it easy for us to implement the products, especially the state management, authentication, and authorization.

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JD
Senior Flutter Developer at Mindorigin Technologies Private Limited

Google Analytics for Firebase is the best feature of the solution. Generally, for analytics, I must integrate GA4 for the web. Since Firebase supports analytics, I can now analyze on the same dashboard using Google Analytics. It is very useful for me. The notification services, Google Analytics, and Crashlytics are easy to use.

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Dominik Szczurek - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at Sourceful

The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that its messaging system is very good. Firebase Crashlytics is also very good.

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Luis Mario Ramos Santos - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior FullStack Developer/Engineer/Architect at Capitbrok

The solution has a comprehensive framework with well-integrated features, including authentication, database, scalability, etc.

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Nakul Kundaliya - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead Developer at Mayora Infotech

The most valuable feature of Google Firebase authentication and deployment.

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Yehuda Parnes - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder at Simplify IT

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.

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IW
Manager at Tathir

The product’s most valuable features are integration and hosting.

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Sivakumar Rathinavelu - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead/Specialist Engineer Software at Signify

The most valuable features of Google Firebase have been Analytics, Remote Config, and Crashlytics. Additionally, a lot of companies have used push notifications which is important. There is little maintenance required.

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HC
Fullstack software developer with Python and angular at Laureate International Universities

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. So, we built a real-time chat where users are able to talk with each other. Also, the push notifications on smartphones are another important feature that we discovered later, and it made a big impact on our portal.

The Firebase functions that act as triggers to let you know when there are changes in the database are very helpful.

Another important feature would be the SDK. You do not have to create an API since you are able to query the database directly from JavaScript or any other language.

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Roche De Kock - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Developer at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

Google Firebase is one I like a lot because it gives us a little bit more power and accessibility when it comes to publishing apps a lot quicker and for the needs that we have.

The documentation for Google Firebase is great. Also, what I like about it is the integration to Android, which is the reason I went with Firebase. Android is the biggest mobile platform out there currently, bigger than IOS, especially in South Africa.

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CF
Application Development Manager at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

What I like most about Google Firebase is that it's one of the easier options to host a website or app quickly. I think the backend integration is quite quick with the Firebase.

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Daniel OlivierBaptiste - PeerSpot reviewer
Android developer at Sensibill

I love Firebase's notifications, crash analytics, and bug tracking. It gives you detailed reporting about app usage and users.

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MG
Android Mobile & Software Developer Engineer & TI Manager at Nova Palma Energia Ltda.

Google Cloud Functions: Allows us to create functions without any infrastructure apart from the Google App Engine. These functions can have several kinds of triggers:

  • Realtime Database Triggers
  • Firebase Authentication Triggers
  • Firebase Analytics Triggers
  • Cloud Storage Triggers
  • Cloud Pub/Sub Triggers
  • HTTP Triggers

Google Cloud Auth: Allows our Android and iOS mobile applications and JavaScript codes to make authentication with almost no effort. The reason is because the Auth has already implemented it for us.

Google Cloud Real-time Database: Allows our Android and iOS mobile applications and JavaScript codes to record and retrieve data with persistence and minimum effort.

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PradeepKumar3 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Technology Solutions at Redintegro Consulting Solution LLP

The solution is useful for managing users and user authentication.

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Shaunak Jagtap - PeerSpot reviewer
Developer at Dyte

The best features are the cloud functions.

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NS
Technical Team Lead at AuthentiCode

Using the batch, it takes mere minutes to update the server. Normally, if we have a task, such as 12,000 records to be updated, it used to take 45 minutes to update. Now, after changing the code to a batch query it takes around one minute or less than one minute to update the records to Firestore.

If there's data added to the solution, there's a good record of it so it's easy to track everything.

Everything is updated automatically, which is very helpful.

The solution has a lot of features related to notifications and analytics. You can see information about how many users are on the app and from which country they are using the app.

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MA
Director Private Sector Software Solutions at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The main feature for us is that the tools are all in one place and that you don't have to bother with the backend system and the infrastructure.

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AA
Programmer at NAFDAC

The Firebase hosting and the automated authentication service, as well as the cloud functionality, are the solution's most valuable features. 

The documentation and guides for implementation are very good.

The user interface is very good and easy to navigate. 

The solution is easy to upload and overall easy to use.

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SF
Senior Architect at Masterworks

I found the flexibility of handling and dealing with the database through EDL to be very useful.

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JP
R&D Team Lead at Becon

The most valuable feature I like is that it is in realtime. Updates are also very fast. 

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it_user871758 - PeerSpot reviewer
Programador at SOAINT
  • Information stored in the cloud and readily available everywhere.
  • The big power of their the data host.
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Google Firebase
March 2024
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