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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

"It's stable."
"The solution is useful for managing users and user authentication."
"We're able to use the solution in several processes."
"If you are selling an app with extensive Firebase use, costs may go up."
"Firebase has been helpful in providing analytics and crash insights."
"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 most valuable feature I like is about the realtime. Updates are also very fast."
"We used it to create credentials for DART for our Android and Flutter applications."
"The dynamic vertical scaling is a unique feature."
"The solution is scalable, and that is what we are looking at. There is no learning curve as we have not done much research."
"Technical support from Jelastic is very good."
"The advanced level of production-ready Docker hosting, one-click application deployment, and the truly flexible pricing."
"The control is valuable. It's really easy to use and you have good control of your solutions."
 

Cons

"The UI for the realtime database could be simplified."
"The product is not that cheap."
"I would like to have a facility for testing possible scenarios by writing dummy data and then doing different queries."
"Their technical support needs to be enhanced with more support for customers."
"Firebase's real-time information isn't technically real-time. It takes a while to upload user activity into the app. It's not as fast as Datadog, the other solution we use."
"There was no way of knowing how the rise in traffic would impact the price."
"The exploration of the functions within Firebase could be improved."
"There's always room for improvement in every product, and the major improvement that's needed in Google Firebase is its simplification, particularly for unsavvy users or non-technical users. If you're not tech-savvy, it would be very difficult for you to use the functions of the solution and understand its security rules. If you want even non-technical people to find it easy to use Google Firebase, it should be simplified because the difference between screen-derived management and code-derived management isn't complex, so simplification wouldn't be an issue."
"The backup functionality needs to be improved."
"For now, some customers are requesting support of Docker containers for Windows."
"Lacks better integration into enterprise storage products."
"The security layers also need to be improved because there is no clear layer or tier of security in the solution."
"The backup features need improvement, or rather it should be added, as I could not find it."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I rate Google Firebase a seven or eight out of ten for pricing."
"The pricing component is a bit confusing when it comes to what exactly you'll pay for, but I wouldn't say it's expensive."
"I rate the price of Google Firebase a four out of five."
"The product is free."
"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 more the number of reads and writes, the more one gets charged."
"The solution's price is based on the number of consumers."
"The price of Google Firebase is very good."
"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
10%
Financial Services Firm
25%
Computer Software Company
16%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Healthcare Company
5%
 

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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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