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Google Firebase vs Microsoft Azure comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 20, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
7.5
Google Firebase is cost-effective, offers automation features, supports SMS, and is a valuable investment with positive ROI for many users.
Sentiment score
7.2
Organizations experience up to 70% savings, improved performance, flexibility, and high productivity using Microsoft Azure, despite data cost concerns.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.9
Google Firebase offers excellent documentation and community support, with responsive service reducing the need for direct contact.
Sentiment score
6.5
Microsoft Azure's support is responsive and knowledgeable, but response times and efficiency vary based on support tiers and contracts.
If the community doesn't have the answers, then I contact the Google Firebase team directly.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.8
Google Firebase is scalable with ease of use, but high costs and performance issues occur at larger scales.
Sentiment score
7.8
Microsoft Azure offers efficient scalability with adaptable resources, though some users experience cost and resource limit challenges.
I would rate the scalability of Google Firebase as eight because I miss some features from MS SQL, particularly the SQL functions.
Scalability with Microsoft Azure is amazing, which is a primary reason for using cloud solutions.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.1
Users highly rate Google Firebase for its stability, reliability, and security, despite minor issues with integration and downtime.
Sentiment score
7.8
Microsoft Azure is highly regarded for its stability and reliability, despite occasional minor issues, making it a preferred choice.
Microsoft Azure is quite stable, but recent outages and security issues have slightly decreased my confidence.
 

Room For Improvement

Google Firebase needs improvements in cloud function controls, pricing, SQL queries, real-time features, support, integrations, and user-friendliness.
Microsoft Azure users face challenges with pricing, compatibility, documentation, user interface, integration, security, scaling, support, and localization.
Since Google Firebase is a NoSQL platform, areas for improvement include enhancing query functionalities to be more equivalent to SQL, like MS SQL.
Recent outages and security issues are also a concern, causing a decrease in confidence, especially when partnering with third-party companies.
 

Setup Cost

Google Firebase offers competitive pricing with a free tier, essential understanding needed as costs scale with data and users.
Microsoft Azure's pricing models offer cost-effectiveness and flexibility, though complexity and unpredictability remain challenges for some users.
Microsoft solutions might be cheaper than some services like AWS, but some solutions may be more expensive depending on the services compared.
 

Valuable Features

Google Firebase provides real-time database, authentication, cloud functions, and app enhancement features, making it ideal for mobile development.
Microsoft Azure offers flexibility, scalability, ease of use, high availability, security, and efficient deployment with its pay-as-you-go model.
What I appreciate most about Google Firebase is the speed, accuracy, and security it offers.
Power BI, another feature of Azure, is extremely elegant and has robust features that support forecasting using R and Python.
 

Categories and Ranking

Google Firebase
Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
4th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
46
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Microsoft Azure
Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
313
Ranking in other categories
PaaS Clouds (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) category, the mindshare of Google Firebase is 6.3%, down from 6.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Azure is 19.1%, up from 18.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
 

Q&A Highlights

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Nov 21, 2021
 

Featured Reviews

Shravan Revanna - PeerSpot reviewer
Simple to get started with and offers integration features in multiple programming languages
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.
Nicolas Chabrier - PeerSpot reviewer
Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration
The only thing is regarding the management of multi-cloud environments. That's not really possible. So basically, it's wonderful if you manage Microsoft clearly and if you manage Microsoft Azure, but if you need to consume external services and have a global overview of all your consumption, it's not the case. Google, for instance, has tools that help you manage multiple environments, which makes sense because Google is really the cloud provider. So that's why they need to be compliant with the others. But for sure, Microsoft's approach is different, and it's wonderful when you're one hundred percent on Azure. But if you'd like to have something more of a multi-cloud strategy, that's a bit of a gap where they could improve.
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Comparison Review

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Aug 14, 2013
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
10%
University
10%
Educational Organization
9%
Educational Organization
45%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Computer Software Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

How does Microsoft Azure compare to Google Firebase?
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What do you like most about Google Firebase?
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Also Known As

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Windows Azure, Azure, MS Azure
 

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