Google Firebase Reviews

I chose Google Firebase because it provides an easy way to authenticate. It offers a lot of authentication services and libraries. It is easier to use, allowing authentication directly from the front end without interacting with the back end. For more advanced use, it can also integrate with the back end. It supports most social logins and offers a free tier with features like email sending for sign-up confirmations and OTP authentication, which can be costly. The solution is user-friendly for developers and good for our company’s authentication needs across all applications.

The authentication features have made things a lot easier for our organization. About five years ago, developers had to create authentication systems from scratch. Now, services like Google Firebase provide secure and accurate authentication solutions. We can implement authentication quickly by following their documentation.

The customization options for password resetting are limited. The process requires additional steps and coding to make it user-friendly. While Google Firebase works well for the login page, password resetting and user verification redirect users to a separate interface, which is not very user-friendly.

I have been using the product for one and a half years. 

The solution is stable; only disruptions exist when the user does not confirm emails. 

My company has seven users. I rate the tool's scalability a seven out of ten. We had issues with scalability, particularly with configurability. Sometimes, we couldn't meet our expectations because the features provided were limited. For example, when sending customer emails, we had limited customization options.

I used open-source libraries before Google Firebase. 

The solution's deployment is easy for a front-end engineer. There are not many operations in the front end. 

I suggest reviewing the documentation and understanding the flow before starting development. It may seem complicated initially, but having a clear idea of the process will make implementation easier. Integrating one application into others becomes straightforward once you have one application set up. I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten. 

I use Google Firebase for its database file storage.

The most valuable features of Google Firebase are its database, noSQL database, file storage, authentication, and notifications.

I had a problem deleting the user's files, and I had to move to the paid plan to do that. They have added a plugin to allow you to do that, but I've not implemented that yet. Google Firebase should add extra functionality to do global delete and updates across your database.

I have been using Google Firebase for three years.

Google Firebase is a very stable solution. I rate Google Firebase a nine out of ten for stability.

I rate Google Firebase a seven or eight out of ten for pricing.

I evaluated other options like AWS and Azure.

I am using the latest version of Google Firebase.

Overall, I rate Google Firebase an eight out of ten.

Google Firebase is more than just a database service. It is a complete platform by Google that is incredibly versatile for mobile and web app development.

The most valuable feature of Google Firebase is its user-friendliness. Since Firebase was the first database I used, it is hard for me to compare it to others. However, what stands out is how straightforward and easy it was to work with. Its simplicity makes it quite handy for my needs in app development. Firebase makes it incredibly easy to build relationships between tables and set up database structures. It feels like a seamless drag-and-drop experience, which saves a lot of time compared to starting from scratch with other MySQL services.

Google Firebase doesn't need significant improvements because it provides a complete package for databases, crash analytics, and reports. 

I have used Google Firebase for a short period of time while working on a few projects.

I wouldn't describe it as a highly scalable product. Firebase is more of a set of essential services provided by Google for building various applications. Its scalability depends on the specific services and resources you choose within Firebase to meet your application's needs.

I have not had any need to contact technical support.

The initial setup is fairly easy and it is done online. 

Google Firebase can be affordable when used in your own app, as many features have free tiers. However, if you are selling an app with extensive Firebase use, costs may go up. It's not too expensive, but it's crucial to pick a pricing plan that fits your business.

My advice to people who are considering using Firebase is to evaluate their app's needs to determine if Firebase is a suitable fit. Firebase is versatile and offers features beyond just databases, such as crash analytics, which can be incredibly helpful. It provides detailed insights into crashes, when they occur, and on which devices, making bug tracking and resolution much easier. Overall, I would rate it an eight out of ten.

The solution provides authentification. It's a real-time database with tracking features. We also use it as a NoSQL database to restore data, and we also use some analytics, remote config, web hosting, and cloud functionality for APIs.

We can focus on developing Mobile app, while relying on the Firebase for the backend (data, file storage, authentication, notification, API). And it is very cheap for hosting the backend so Firebase is really good for start-up company to quickly launch a new product ideas into the market 

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

For example, we developed a mobile app, and in the mobile app, we developed an authentication service for authentication for a login feature. And we use real-time for charts and Firestore to store data, and remote config to do some application settings remotely. 

For another project, we use it in a rather similar way. However, in this scale, we use the cloud function for the API and use Firestore as a database.

It's also great for web hosting, analysis, and CRAFTalytics that we use to measure the craft of the app.

The initial setup is not exactly straightforward. 

They really need to work on their performance. It is not so good.

I've been using the solution for 4 years.

The performance is not good. That said, it doesn't crash. We'd like the stability, in general, to be more reliable. 

I've not experienced scalability. It's a new app, and the number of users is not that much, so we haven't seen scalability in action. 

That said, I have noted that the response of the server is not very good. The APIs sometimes take ten seconds to return data. It's running slow. Normally, people expect the data to be returned within two seconds.

We have five developers using the solution right now. It is still a new system. Since the response time is slow, we likely won't be expanding usage. 

I've never used technical support.

Besides Firebase, we also have Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS, and while Firebase is rather cheaper than the other tools, its performance and response time is slow. I'm not really sure that we should expand the number of users on the platform.

Azure has the best performance, yet it's the most expensive. AWS is something in between Firebase and Azure. So, the price is higher with Azure and its performance is a little bit better than Firebase.

It's not straightforward to set up the whole way through. Some of it is easy to use like remote config and web hosting. However, other areas, like cloud functions in real-time on the database, are not easy.

The deployment is quick. You just need one person to manage the process. They are an admin engineer.

For stability, we have a strict testing version process and also production. We have to create two Firebase environments for each of them, and there is no transition between station to production so, which is one limitation of the size and scope.

We handled the initial setup in-house. 

The pricing is pretty good. It's less than Azure and AWS.

We pay for a private license.

You can use some of Google's services and it's okay. The functionality, the authentication, and the notifications of Firebase are really good, so it's what I strongly recommend people to use, however, the database the real-time functionality is not good. 

I'd rate the solution seven out of ten.

We used the solution for real-time database and authentication.

The solution helped us with real-time databases and authentication while working on a product with a chat element.

The solution's notification system could be much better. Also, they should add automation aspects to it. The authentication capabilities need expansion as well. In addition, they should enable vertical scaling for real-time databases.

They should add a code library to it. Presently, it is very troublesome to develop new code. Also, there needs to be a document for standardized procedures.

The solution is highly stable. I rate its stability a nine.

I rate the solution's scalability as six and a half. Its orchestration tools need to be fixed for deployment. It becomes challenging to determine the scaling capabilities.

The solution's customer service needs to be active. Also, the frequency of document updation is relatively low.

Neutral

I have used other solutions before. Later, I switched to Google Firebase as it is more developer friendly.

The solution is straightforward to set up. I rate the process as an eight. It takes two or three days to complete.

Our team of one or two back-end developers implements the solution. It requires only one executive for maintenance.

The solution is worth buying. I rate its ROI as a ten.

The solution's price is based on the number of consumers.

I have evaluated Jira and Amazon solutions.

I rate the solution an eight.

I started using it for web development, taking advantage of the SDK to speed up the development process. Since you do not need to create an API, you can connect to Firebase from JavaScript.

The product that we sell has a lot of important features, and one is the real-time chat that was only made possible by Firebase. Currently, we are working on a migration from another document database to Firestore, which is the second generation of Firebase.

Firestore makes possible more things than Firebase. It is a mix of Datastore and Firebase. We needed a database that provides high consistency and scalability, given the real-time feature. This helped our organization a lot because the process to develop everything was very fast, thanks to its SDK.

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. So, we built a real-time chat where users are able to talk with each other. Also, the push notifications on smartphones are another important feature that we discovered later, and it made a big impact on our portal.

The Firebase functions that act as triggers to let you know when there are changes in the database are very helpful.

Another important feature would be the SDK. You do not have to create an API since you are able to query the database directly from JavaScript or any other language.

I would like to have a facility for testing possible scenarios by writing dummy data and then doing different queries. This would help me to better develop applications.

I have been using Google Firebase for two years.

We have never had problems in the two years that we have been working on this database.

We currently have around 500,000 and the database works very well.

So far, we haven't need to contact customer service. The documentation is clear about how to implement it.

We were using CouchDB and we changed because we needed to use a managed service. The one available on GCP was Firebase.

The initial setup is simple since you only need to create an account on the Firebase website.

We implemented this completely using our internal team.

The monthly cost is based on writing data and queries to the database. The price, I would say, is cheap. You can use this database in the free tier even for production with small applications.

We did not evaluate other solutions.

Queries to the database were very simple. However, modeling is a challenge and I recommend running proof of concepts when you want to store something new in the database.

Overall, I have to say that this database is great.

My company uses Google Firebase for the product we are trying to develop.

The most valuable feature of the solution is that it has built-in accelerators, which makes it easy for us to implement the products, especially the state management, authentication, and authorization.

I would prefer Google Firebase to focus more on its integration capabilities since it is an area in the solution with certain shortcomings. Though Google Firebase does a lot of things, there is no clear documentation for code insights. The product is not easily available for a person to understand, so a person has to do a lot of experiments to understand how things happen in the background. Google Firebase should try to simplify its product for others to implement it, but the code insights or functionalities are not available, and there are no explanations available on what it can and cannot do.

I have been using Google Firebase for a couple of months. I use the solution's latest version.

Stability-wise, I rate the solution a seven out of ten since I haven't used the product enough to see its performance under various circumstances.

I have not used the product extensively, and there is presently no user base for the product in my company.

Only a few test users in my company use Google Firebase since we have not rolled out the product in the market for customers.

Based on my experience with the solution's technical support, I can say that the technical support was not useful for us in our company.

The initial setup of Google Firebase is pretty straightforward.

The solution can be deployed in a couple of days.

If you are a slightly technical person, you can implement the product on your own.

For deployment, you just need to log in and press certain commands, after which the product automatically deploys code into Google Firebase.

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

I recommend the solution to those who plan to use it.

I rate the overall solution a six and a half out of ten.

We use the product for storing information about customers in our company.

The platform works quickly and does not require frequent restarts like some SQL databases. It is always active, and there is no downtime when it starts. It is easy to use, has clear documentation, and provides multiple tutorials.

The product's user interface for developers needs improvement. 

We have been using Google Firebase for six months.

The platform is stable. I rate the stability a ten out of ten. 

The platform is scalable. 

The technical support services are good. 

The initial setup is easy.

The product is worth the investment. 

I recommend Firebase to other people because it works very well.  The code is easy to implement. It is a good choice to incorporate into your projects. 

I rate it a ten out of ten.