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."It is a scalable product. So, scaling up or scaling down is possible."
"What's good about Alibaba Cloud is its database service. It's also good in the virtual machine area."
"ECS is the most valuable feature of the solution."
"Alibaba Cloud allows for easy setup of mirror sites and backup servers, ensuring data redundancy and high availability."
"We use the product for storage and as a VPN."
"It's easy to use, cheaper than other solutions, and more secure."
"It is easy to set up."
"The installation is easy."
"It is a stable solution...It is a very scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature I like is about the realtime. Updates are also very fast."
"I found the flexibility of handling and dealing with database through EDL to be very useful."
"If there's data added to the solution, there's a good record of it so it's easy to track everything."
"The most valuable features of Google Firebase have been Analytics, Remote Config, and Crashlytics. Additionally, a lot of companies have used push notifications which is important. There is little maintenance required."
"The main feature for us is that the tools are all in one place and that you don't need to bother with the backend system and the infrastructure."
"Its simplicity makes it quite handy for my needs in app development."
"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."
"A big area for improvement in Alibaba Cloud is its support. Another area for improvement in Alibaba Cloud is SDK-based service because sometimes, the SDKs don't work correctly. Support for API-based services also needs improvement in Alibaba Cloud because, at the moment, it's not that stable."
"Alibaba Cloud's initial setup is somewhat complex."
"The solution should have more integration."
"The flexibility of the solution could be improved."
"The solution name is not favorable in some markets and could cause us some problems gaining customers."
"The user experience must be improved."
"I think that sometimes the customer service for Alibaba Cloud is inefficient.... Sometimes it's hard to reach out to them."
"The support offered by the tool is ridiculous."
"The product is not that cheap."
"The cold start-up of the cloud function needs to speed up. For me personally, I'm not experienced in anything there, however, I've just read online it's a problem."
"Google Firebase's app testing feature for Android, where you can upload your APK, needs improvement because it's not working very well."
"The only thing that I won't do on Firebase is the hosting side of things for a progressive web app because it feels like you actually still need to download the app first before you can actually get into the functionality of the app."
"The solution needs to offer capabilities to work offline. Like Firestore, we should be able to do insertion, updating, and deletion offline."
"We had some compatibility issues with Elixir."
"The solution's notification system could be much better."
"The notifications must be made a little bit better."
Alibaba Cloud is ranked 9th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 17 reviews while Google Firebase is ranked 5th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 32 reviews. Alibaba Cloud is rated 7.4, while Google Firebase is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Alibaba Cloud writes "The solution is useful for application development, but the user interface and user experience must be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Firebase writes "An application development solution that has a lot of services like storage, Firestore, and push notifications". Alibaba Cloud is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and DigitalOcean, whereas Google Firebase is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, DigitalOcean, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Linode. See our Alibaba Cloud vs. Google Firebase report.
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