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Google Firebase vs Virtuozzo Application Platform comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Google Firebase
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
45
Ranking in other categories
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) (4th)
Virtuozzo Application Platform
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
PaaS Clouds (16th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Cloud Services solutions, they serve different purposes. Google Firebase is designed for Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) and holds a mindshare of 6.3%, down 6.7% compared to last year.
Virtuozzo Application Platform, on the other hand, focuses on PaaS Clouds, holds 0.5% mindshare, up 0.4% since last year.
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
PaaS Clouds
 

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.
Miguel Maloney Thompson - PeerSpot reviewer
A scalable and stable solution that has good scalability and is easy to setup
It is a scalable solution. I have yet to have a scenario regarding automatic scale and if there's an increase in resource requirement or need. We have yet to have that scenario. We have yet to test that. The scalability was more than manually adjusting and increasing whatever I had to do. I rate it eight out of ten.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."
"Google Firebase supports all types of authentication."
"Google Firebase has a lot of services like storage, Firestore, and push notifications."
"The most valuable feature I like is about the realtime. Updates are also very fast."
"The platform is scalable."
"It has security rules to control database read/write operations in real-time."
"I found the flexibility of handling and dealing with database through EDL to be very useful."
"What I like most about Google Firebase is that it's one of the easier options to host a website or app quickly."
"The advanced level of production-ready Docker hosting, one-click application deployment, and the truly flexible pricing."
"The dynamic vertical scaling is a unique feature."
"Technical support from Jelastic is very good."
"The solution is scalable, and that is what we are looking at. There is no learning curve as we have not done much research."
"The control is valuable. It's really easy to use and you have good control of your solutions."
 

Cons

"I would like to see faster data migration and some support for other languages in the next release."
"The tool's support requires improvement."
"Their technical support needs to be enhanced with more support for customers."
"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."
"We had some compatibility issues with Elixir."
"I rate the support from Google Firebase a four out of five."
"Google Firebase's app testing feature for Android, where you can upload your APK, needs improvement because it's not working very well."
"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."
"The backup functionality needs to be improved."
"Lacks better integration into enterprise storage products."
"The backup features need improvement, or rather it should be added, as I could not find it."
"For now, some customers are requesting support of Docker containers for Windows."
"The security layers also need to be improved because there is no clear layer or tier of security in the solution."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Pricing for Google Firebase is not so expensive, and if you're a start-up with a small amount of data, it will be quite cheap, and there's even a free tier that you can use. If you're doing a pilot with a reasonable amount of data, for example, just a few gigabytes, it's still on the free tier. If you increase the amount of data, Google Firebase pricing is still reasonable."
"The monthly cost is based on writing data and queries to the database."
"Google Firebase’s pricing needs improvement."
"The price of Google Firebase is very good."
"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."
"The price is perfect and very clearly defined. The price during the trial setup is free and then you move to a paid service."
"The tool is affordable."
"My company makes monthly payments towards the licensing costs attached to the solution. There are no additional costs apart from the licensing costs attached to the solution."
"I would rate the cost 3 out of 5. There are additional costs other than licensing fees."
"Pricing for providers is revenue-shared based. Providers should invest in hardware to set up the Jelastic cluster."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
12%
University
10%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Educational Organization
9%
Financial Services Firm
25%
Computer Software Company
16%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Healthcare Company
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

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...
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...
What do you like most about Google Firebase?
Google Analytics for Firebase is the best feature of the solution.
What do you like most about Jelastic?
The solution is scalable, and that is what we are looking at. There is no learning curve as we have not done much research.
What needs improvement with Jelastic?
The backup features need improvement, or rather it should be added, as I could not find it.
What is your primary use case for Jelastic?
We have a static environment where we created a server and workforce, and that was basically it. And it's promising.
 

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