Light and fast
March 24, 2022

Light and fast

Alberto Moncada | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Firebase

Firebase has been used in a lot of projects that our firm has developed, it has many great features that we use, but the most important ones are the web hosting, the authentication, and the lighting fast real-time database. This tripled allow the fast development of robust and scalable applications and web applications.
  • Makes easy the social media authentication.
  • Empower users to manage their own account password reset.
  • Facilitates the relationship between the database and the authentication.
  • Storage cost may be a little high for some users.
  • Domain transfers are a bit complicated.
  • It needs more email templates.
  • SMS authentication.
  • Self service password reset.
  • Real-time database.
  • Reduced the waiting time for the password reset, enabling users to return to work faster.
  • Reduced the development time by having easy integrations.
  • Improves the applications performance by having real-time database.
PostgreSQL is a relational database and is well suited for complex applications, however, Firebase is well suited for light and faster applications.

Do you think Firebase delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Firebase's feature set?

Yes

Did Firebase live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Firebase go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Firebase again?

Yes

Firebase is well suited for the development of fast applications that require a light database integration with a couple of relationships. However, it is not well suited if your application requires many relationships, or if you need an offline database.