Google Firebase Reviews

Name: Google Firebase
Brand: Google
Rating: 4.2 (45 reviews)

4.2 out of 5

45 reviews
93% willing to recommend

920 followers

What is Google Firebase?

Google Firebase is a stable, reliable, and scalable mobile platform that enables you to quickly develop apps, accelerate them, and monitor their performance.

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Google Firebase is the #4 ranked solution in top Infrastructure as a Service Clouds. PeerSpot users give Google Firebase an average rating of 8.4 out of 10. Based on the analysis of the 45 most recent Google Firebase reviews, the overall sentiment is positive, with a sentiment score of 7.1. Google Firebase is most commonly compared to Microsoft Azure: Google Firebase vs Microsoft Azure. Google Firebase is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 59% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 12% of all views.

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Mehmet Batuhan Ülper

Intern Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

We use Firebase for understanding crashes and tracking analytics about our users, which supports marketing, development, and distribution purposes Firebase has been helpful in providing analytics and crash insights. It still needs more detail for larger scale applications. Crashlytics is the…

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Shravan Revanna

Vice President at E-Cell Ramaiah

The product provides integration features in multiple languages, such as Python, JavaScript, Golang, and all other languages. Google Firebase has documentation, which might seem a bit confusing, but one with decent knowledge can easily explore and get started with Firebase quickly. Before jumping into any cloud infrastructure, the tool should analyze how much it would cost to run the database. Google Firebase provides a certain number of reads and writes per day, which is approximately 40,000 reads and writes. If there are more than 200 to 300 active users per day, there will be plenty of reads and writes to the database. In such a case, one can't use Google Firebase and has to upgrade to Spark, which is where it is based on usage. The tool is fairly simple to get started with. Utilize all the features can get very complicated. One must be a pretty good developer who has a lot of experience to be able to utilize the best features. It gets really complicated over time. The basic functionality and basic usage are easy to use and easy to get started. There are plenty of deprecated versions, and frequently upgrading them causes inconvenience. I rate the tool a nine out of ten.

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OmkarPatil

Chief Executive Officer at Nyx CodeCraft

I use the solution for real-time data synchronization of applications. I use the tool to build native applications using React Native Firebase. Google Firebase integrates well with React Native Firebase. Google Firebase has me. It has a large online community, and it offers most of the features one would need to build an application. Setting up Google Firebase for user authentication and management is quite straightforward and easy. Tracking user engagement is possible with Google Firebase since it easily integrates with Google Analytics, and it is also easy to set it up inside applications. My company also uses Crashlytics, which is included in Google Firebase and is sometimes handy and useful. There is nothing specific about how Firebase Cloud Messaging improves the way my company interacts with product users. My company uses the product since it easily fits into the stack of tools we use. The users don't feel anything about what our company does on the back end, and it also doesn't affect them. Although my company has not experienced any bugs or crashes in production, we have tested the tool well enough. Once or twice, when there were crashes, reports from Firebase Crashlytics helped debug or pinpoint the location where the problem was and the reason why the problem arose. Google Firebase has affected our company's uptime and scalability part since it has had a surprising impact on our development time. With the tool, my company is able to rapidly create prototype applications and roll them out for users for feedback, based on which we can make changes to improve the product. The product helps my company to rapidly build prototypes for our projects and get inputs from our customers. I rate the tool a ten out of ten.

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Google Firebase mindshare

As of December 2024, the mindshare of Google Firebase in the Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) category stands at 8.3%, down from 8.6% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)

PeerAnalyst reports

Type	Title	Date
Category	Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)	Dec 27, 2024	Download
Product	Reviews, tips, and advice from real users	Dec 27, 2024	Download
Comparison	Google Firebase vs Microsoft Azure	Dec 27, 2024	Download
Comparison	Google Firebase vs Amazon AWS	Dec 27, 2024	Download
Comparison	Google Firebase vs Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)	Dec 27, 2024	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
Microsoft Azure	4.2	20.4%	96%	312 interviews Add to research
Amazon AWS	4.2	19.5%	93%	254 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

"The real-time database feature is the most valuable, allowing real-time feedback without needing to constantly poll the database."
"The main part that I like about Firebase is that it provides command line tools."
"The access to Firestore is very easy."

Room for Improvement

"There needs to be an easy way to duplicate a database."
"You need to have some experience with deployment."
"As we are a small team, we have only utilized some features, however, all those features have been very useful, and there is no problem."

ROI

Google Firebase provides a favorable return on investment with a low-cost structure. Features are well-received, though automation is emphasized. Some users find alternative services cost-effective for sending SMS. Deploying applications that generate income isn't directly attributed to Firebase, yet the investment is considered worthwhile. Costs are minimal with most features available for free, benefiting apps with larger user bases. Users rate its ROI highly, often considering it a strong investment choice.

Pricing

"The more the number of reads and writes, the more one gets charged."
"The pricing plans indicate it can get very expensive."
"The tool is affordable."

Popular Use Cases

Service and Support

Deployment

Scalability

Stability

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Top industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

12%

University

10%

Educational Organization

10%

Financial Services Firm

Government

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Media Company

Retailer

Healthcare Company

Real Estate/Law Firm

Non Profit

Insurance Company

Energy/Utilities Company

Construction Company

Hospitality Company

Legal Firm

Wholesaler/Distributor

Outsourcing Company

Recreational Facilities/Services Company

Logistics Company

Performing Arts

Consumer Goods Company

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Learn more about Google Firebase

With Google Firebase You Can

Build and run successful apps
Scale globally
Monitor app quality and performance with little effort
Boost user engagement

Google Firebase Features:

Crashlytic
Automatic updates
Fast and easy deployment
Access to Cloud Firestore
Multi-platform sign-in authentication
Flexible drop-in UI
Real-time database
Remote configuration
Firebase machine learning
Cloud messaging
Advanced message targeting
Push messages
Error monitoring

SDKs supported by Google Firebase:

Web SDK
iOS SDK
Android SDK
Admin SDK

Benefits of Google Firebase:

Fast implementation: Google Firebase makes it possible for you to set up your authentication system quickly, using minimal code.
Comprehensive security: With Google Firebase, your systems remain secured; It is backed by Google Sign-in, Chrome Password Manager, and also Smart Lock.
Machine learning capabilities: Firebase offers machine learning capabilities that help you deploy and train custom models.
Eliminate the need to manage servers: Because Google Firebase offers cloud functions, it enables you to run your mobile backend code without having to also manage your servers.
Authentication for any platform: Google’s Firebase authentication makes the sign-in process easier by providing an end-to-end identity solution that works with any platform.
Customized notifications: With cloud messaging, you can customize alerts, defining how and when they are sent, what sounds they should make, and can also select the expiration date for each message. In addition, it gives you the ability to track custom conversion events.
Fast and secure web hosting: Firebase makes it possible for you to have easy and secure web hosting with fast content delivery. Firebase hosting also provides free SSL certificates.
Cloud storage: With Google Firebase you have access to cloud storage that supports robust uploads and downloads, can handle user-generated content, and provides simple and intuitive access control.
Developer-friendly: Developers prefer to use Firebase because it lets them focus on creating frontend code for mobile applications rather than having to concentrate on backend code.

Reviews from Real Users

PeerSpot user Nilakshi S., technical team lead at AuthentiCode says, “The solution is very stable and very reliable. There aren't any bugs or glitches.”

"What I like most about Google Firebase is that it's one of the easier options to host a website or app quickly," says Craig F., application development manager at a financial services firm.

A senior developer at a consultancy says, “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.”