Alibaba Cloud vs Google Firebase comparison

Alibaba and Google are both solutions in the Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) category. Alibaba is ranked #8 with an average rating of 7.6, while Google is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.4. Alibaba holds a 10.6% mindshare in ISI, compared to Google’s 8.3% mindshare. Additionally, 75% of Alibaba users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of Google users who would recommend it.

Alibaba Cloud

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75% willing to recommend

Google Firebase

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8,877 Views
5,608 Comparison Views

93% willing to recommend

Alibaba Cloud

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Alibaba Cloud and Google Firebase based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed Alibaba Cloud vs. Google Firebase Report (Updated: December 2024).

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Categories and Ranking

Alibaba Cloud

Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)

8th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Google Firebase

Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)

4th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) category, the mindshare of Alibaba Cloud is 10.6%, up from 6.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Google Firebase is 8.3%, down from 8.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Min HtetOo

Chief Marketing Officer at Soft Intelligence

The solution is useful for application development, but the user interface and user experience must be improved

The product must be made easier to use. The design is a bit tricky. When we log in to the Alibaba Cloud Marketplace and browse products, they look very small. The user experience must be improved. Alibaba Cloud must increase its partner network and brand awareness in our country. It will give our customers more opportunities to scale and save in the long run.

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Mehmet Batuhan Ülper

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

Crash insights empower user analytics and highlight potential for session replay integration

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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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most valuable feature of Alibaba Cloud is the communication it allows between two servers."

"It is a scalable product. So, scaling up or scaling down is possible."

"Alibaba Cloud has lower costs and good support."

"The product's initial setup phase was easy for me since I had a background in cloud products."

"It's easy to use, cheaper than other solutions, and more secure."

"We use the solution to run VMs."

"I rate Alibaba Cloud's scalability an eight out of ten."

"The installation is easy."

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

"What I like most about Google Firebase is that it's one of the easier options to host a website or app quickly."

"The initial setup of Google Firebase is pretty straightforward."

"It is a completely reliable product."

"We use the platform to deploy our software projects."

"The platform is scalable."

"Google Firebase has a lot of services like storage, Firestore, and push notifications."

"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."

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Cons

"Users use websites as a tutorial. However, the Alibaba Cloud website has the content, and the scripts are copied from Amazon Web Services. We had received customer feedback where the customer asked us to get formulate original content instead of copying from Amazon Web Services. It’s very odd and awkward."

"It is not robust."

"The solution’s user interface could be improved."

"I think that sometimes the customer service for Alibaba Cloud is inefficient.... Sometimes it's hard to reach out to them."

"The majority of the tools and processes, in general, have a lot of room for improvement."

"Alibaba Cloud has some problems related to latency and connection issues. If you go for a cloud solution provider, you will need to access the Internet, which may result in latency and bandwidth issues, leading to slowness in operations."

"The solution needs to improve its graphical user interface."

"From a performance point of view, Huawei and Azure are faster. Alibaba isn't as good."

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"Their technical support needs to be enhanced with more support for customers."

"The solution's notification system could be much better."

"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."

"One of the challenges I was facing when I was using it was the library called Google Dialogflow which allows you to connect your chatbot with an intent. So there is so much adding when you are trying to connect it with your service because you have to do a lot of repetition writing a new intent, putting it step by set so it is good to escape. I believe it should be flexible and dedicate the intents based on the relating and to write a lesser code when doing that."

"I would like to see faster data migration and some support for other languages in the next release."

"Google Firebase lacks a SQL database."

"The initial setup is not exactly straightforward."

"The product is not that cheap."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of Alibaba Cloud is good. If I was to use Microsoft Azure I would have to pay 30 percent more."

"The cost is better than similar solutions."

"I don't know the exact cost. It is cheaper than AWS."

"Pricing for Alibaba Cloud is a little bit cheaper. It has reasonable pricing."

"The solution's pricing is the same as AWS'."

"Alibaba Cloud is cheaper."

"We cut our costs significantly by migrating our infrastructure to the cloud. Alibaba Cloud employs a pay-as-you-go model, so that minimizes many costs for us."

"I noticed on the pricing that it's quite expensive. It is the price you pay for making a practical choice for enterprise-level companies since it has so many features and it fits an enterprise-level company just like our company right now."

More Alibaba Cloud pricing and cost advice

"They have a free tier that will cover most projects. For more intensive use, you pay as you use it, but the price is very cheap."

"It is not easy to calculate the cost per copy, use or if the load rose dramatically we did not know how that would impact the final price."

"We are using the free version of Google Firebase."

"My company makes very minimal payments toward the licensing costs of the solution."

"Google Firebase’s pricing needs improvement."

"The tool is affordable."

"The more the number of reads and writes, the more one gets charged."

"The monthly cost is based on writing data and queries to the database."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

10%

University

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

13%

University

10%

Educational Organization

10%

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Alibaba Cloud?

ECS is the most valuable feature of the solution.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Alibaba Cloud?

On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a three out of ten.

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What needs improvement with Alibaba Cloud?

Alibaba Cloud needs to improve emails. Its pricing can also be lower. Regarding security issues, Alibaba Cloud is more complex and better suited for developers and R&D teams. On the other hand,...

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How does Microsoft Azure compare to Google Firebase?

I would recommend Google Firebase instead of Microsoft Azure, simply for the array of features that it has to offer. In particular, the Firebase library grants you access to a shared data structure...

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Looking to compare Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, and Microsoft Azure

We like Google Firebase hosting and authentication and also the excellent cloud functionality. Our team found the flexibility of handling and dealing with the database through EDL to be very useful...

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What do you like most about Google Firebase?

Google Analytics for Firebase is the best feature of the solution.

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Comparisons

Google Cloud vs Alibaba Cloud

Compared 36% of the time

Microsoft Azure vs Alibaba Cloud

Compared 35% of the time

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) vs Alibaba Cloud

Compared 9% of the time

Amazon AWS vs Alibaba Cloud

Compared 7% of the time

DigitalOcean vs Alibaba Cloud

Compared 2% of the time

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Microsoft Azure vs Google Firebase

Compared 65% of the time

Amazon AWS vs Google Firebase

Compared 13% of the time

DigitalOcean vs Google Firebase

Compared 9% of the time

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) vs Google Firebase

Compared 7% of the time

Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) vs Google Firebase

Compared 1% of the time

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Overview

Alibaba Cloud offers a comprehensive suite of cloud computing services to support growing enterprises worldwide, including data storage, relational databases, big-data processing, and content delivery networks.

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

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.”

Sample Customers

Schneider Electric, BorderX Lab, Royal Philips, Catchpoint, Conversant, Blogmint

Fabulous, Pic Collage, Shazam, SkyScanner

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