We performed a comparison between DigitalOcean 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."The most valuable feature is the ease with which you can create a phishing server and use it."
"The solution is very stable."
"The user interface is nice, and it is very easy to use. Anyone can use it."
"The most outstanding aspect of DigitalOcean is its user interface and ease of use. Compared to more complex solutions, such as AWS, DigitalOcean's platform is highly intuitive and user-friendly."
"The solution is easy to set up."
"I like Kubernetes integration."
"The customer support team are very responsive."
"It's been a good choice for us for some services. We generally have several deployments. For instance, for some static Angular applications, it was a clear choice to run them on Cloudflare, which performs very well in this context. All the assets go on DigitalOcean."
"If there's data added to the solution, there's a good record of it so it's easy to track everything."
"It's stable."
"I love Firebase's notifications, crash analytics, and bug tracking. It gives you detailed reporting about app usage and users."
"The most beautiful feature of Google Firebase is that it gives you a lot of functionalities out of the box, without you having to develop or having to complete a solution. For example, identity management is integrated, and security is out of the box, particularly security for the user and the ability of each user to see his data. I also like that Google Firebase has a really good performance and is comparable to MongoDB. It's on the same level, and sometimes, it's on an even higher level than MongoDB. Other functions that Google Firebase has that I find valuable include information dissemination, mail automation, and SMS, available out of the box. Another valuable feature of the solution is that it allows you to develop some functionalities on the server side, so you can write JavaScript functions on the server side and use those functions quite easily. Google Firebase gives you almost a full backend environment out of the box without you having to do any deployments or a lot of administration because all administration is given out of the box."
"It is a very stable solution."
"The scalability is good."
"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."
"The product’s most valuable features are integration and hosting."
"I would like to see an automation feature added to send emails out using the open-source solution."
"The technical support for this solution could be improved."
"The solution could improve by having integration with GitHub."
"We found the solution to be a bit expensive."
"Other solutions are proving the monitoring feature, like AWS having GuardDuty and SAP having services for logs and monitoring. DigitalOcean doesn’t have any other benefits."
"The issue with DigitalOcean is primarily the latency. So, when you have a mixed system with some components staying here, and then we encounter network latency, it's not optimal. Our"
"I would like to see improvements to the logging and user interface. The verification process could be more streamlined."
"I think something needs to be done in terms of technical support."
"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."
"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."
"In Google Firebase, reporting is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required to be made in the future."
"Their technical support needs to be enhanced with more support for customers."
"The solution's notification system could be much better."
"I would like to have a facility for testing possible scenarios by writing dummy data and then doing different queries."
"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."
"Google Firebase's app testing feature for Android, where you can upload your APK, needs improvement because it's not working very well."
DigitalOcean is ranked 12th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 9 reviews while Google Firebase is ranked 5th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 32 reviews. DigitalOcean is rated 8.4, while Google Firebase is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of DigitalOcean writes "Testing new systems is affordable. Backup/snapshots does not always restore properly". 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". DigitalOcean is most compared with Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Alibaba Cloud and SAP S4HANA on AWS, whereas Google Firebase is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Alibaba Cloud and Linode. See our DigitalOcean vs. Google Firebase report.
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