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Firebase

Composite Score
8.4 /10
CX Score
8.6 /10
Category
Firebase
8.4 /10

What is Firebase?

Use Firebase products together to solve complex challenges and optimize your app experience. Personalize your onboarding flow, grow user engagement, or add new functionality with Firebase. Firebase provides detailed documentation and cross-platform SDKs to help you build and ship apps on Android, iOS, the web, C++, and Unity.

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Awards & Recognition

Firebase won the following awards in the Product Analytics category

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Firebase Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

89 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+86 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Firebase?

0% Negative
10% Neutral
90% Positive

Pros

  • Enables Productivity
  • Reliable
  • Helps Innovate
  • Performance Enhancing

Feature Ratings

Average 82

Analytics and Reporting

85

Device and Browser Analytics

83

Data Analysis and Survey Function

83

Mobile Functionality

82

Conversion Analysis

82

API Framework

82

Marketing Analytics

82

Data Warehousing

81

Data Management

80

Data Integrity

79

Audience Segmentation

78

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 79

Business Value Created

83

Ease of Customization

81

Quality of Features

81

Usability and Intuitiveness

81

Ease of Implementation

80

Breadth of Features

80

Ease of Data Integration

79

Availability and Quality of Training

78

Ease of IT Administration

77

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

77

Vendor Support

74

Firebase Reviews

Sanket p.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2024

best Nosql database from google!

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Firebase from other similar products?

Google firebase is one the best Nosql database with comprehensive set of features, the API documentation is damn good and the user interaction dashbaords and response is top notch. Google also offer free version of the firebase so user can play around with it to get the idea of its capabilities.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The Best part of the product is it can be easily integrated with any system in minimal efforts, it has a great community and product documentation helps a lot at time of configuration and setup. it even delivers the best output with Android and ios environment.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The only drawback or i would say limitation is the web console has the limited functionality which i believe fixed in the future release otherwise firebase is very good product overall.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Google firebase is trustworthy and highly recommended product to manage nosql database with easy way. i am fully satisfied and recommend it.

Pros

  • Saves Time
  • Fair
  • Acts with Integrity
  • Security Protects

Cons

  • Vendor's Interest First
  • Less Transparent

Khushi A.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2024

Use case from the perspective of an app developer

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Firebase from other similar products?

Firebase Crashlytics is a tool that helps developers track, prioritize, and address stability issues in real-time. It effectively solves the problem of apps crashing frequently, which can negatively impact app quality. On the other hand, Google Analytics is a useful tool for gathering user behavior data. It provides valuable metrics on user retention and engagement rates, among other things.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

As an app developer, I often utilize Firebase as my back-end solution. It's an excellent tool that can handle authentication, real-time database, and hosting. What I appreciate most about Firebase is that it offers a wide range of authentication options, including verification of phone numbers, email addresses, and social networks. Additionally, Firebase provides push notifications for mobile apps and crash handling, which is extremely helpful.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Firebase has some challenges that a backend developer should be aware of. For example, the Real-Time Database has limited querying and filtering capabilities and can result in excessive duplication. However, these limitations may not be a major issue for experienced professionals. Another challenge is the limited SDK, which can be problematic for some developers. For instance, the Firebase JavaScript SDK doesn't support data caching and offline commitment.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Firebase is a useful platform for web and mobile applications that is easy to use and adaptable. It's perfect for start-ups and fast development projects because of its comprehensive toolset and scalability. However, it's essential to consider the learning curve, potential vendor lock-in, and pricing scalability before making a decision.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Harshit A.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Education
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Dec 2023

One Stop Shop for almost all web & app dev needs.

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Firebase from other similar products?

Google Firebase acts as a one stop shop providing almost all required features for website and mobile application development. It provides Database, Storage, Authentication, AI/ML tools and a lot more at just a single place, which is easy to implement as well.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

We can easily add dynamic features to our applications using google Firebase, it's easy to use and wide documentation available makes it more accessible.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Everything was really great with Firebase but resources for python Development are very limited yet, which should be increased.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It acts as one stop shop for all your business application needs, it's really easy to implement. Whether you're a beginner, intermediate or advanced it will work best for you. And it's NO-SQL database is really helpful.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

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