CloudBoost vs Firebase: A War of choices.

How CloudBoost differs from Firebase and which one should you choose.

Choices — the more the merrier. But is it? Why are we humans the most “intelligent” species on Earth? What is intelligence anyway?

Intelligence is the ability to use the knowledge and information we have to “decide”. But taking a decision isn’t easy especially when they are too many options to choose from making us unsure about the outcome of our decision and so the best way to choose is to choose something which provides us a lot of flexibility.

One such decision that you have to make is choosing the right cloud platform for our applications. A choice that doesn’t fit perfectly with your needs could render all your efforts useless.

On some Q/A platforms like Quora and Stack Overflow we encounter the same questions a lot of time to help developers choose the “best” BaaS/DBaaS for them with CloudBoost and Firebase being the most prominently suggested ones. But, to be truthful, there is no correct answer to this question for a simple reason that there is no one who can be given the precious title of being the “best”. Choosing the best depends entirely on the application requirement and what’s best for me may not be the best alternative for someone else.

That being said which one should you choose?

Firebase, acquired by Google is a mobile and web application development platform. It works great and is used by developers primarily for mobile app development.It provides features such as real time data storage with offline sync and app hosting.

CloudBoost on the other hand is a similar cloud platform offering much more features such as:

Open Source: We’re under a liberal Apache 2 license which means you can modify us in any way you like. You can also install us on any cloud and on any server you want and are not locked into Google Cloud unlike Firebase.

We’re under a liberal Apache 2 license which means you can modify us in any way you like. You can also install us on any cloud and on any server you want and are not locked into Google Cloud unlike Firebase. Relationships between data: CloudBoost offers features of relational database like: referencing data between multiple tables/schema thus saving you a lot of time and effort. Although Firebase also uses no-SQL database but it lacks the features of relational database hence making it difficult for you to perform complex queries that could be easily done on CloudBoost.

CloudBoost offers features of relational database like: referencing data between multiple tables/schema thus saving you a lot of time and effort. Although Firebase also uses no-SQL database but it lacks the features of relational database hence making it difficult for you to perform complex queries that could be easily done on CloudBoost. Search: CloudBoost comes with an inbuilt search engine which provides you the ability to search a table/collection for a particular data very easily. If you ever want to implement a search box in your app, its just one API call away. Traditionally you’d have to implement ElasticSearch / Algolia / Amazon Cloud Search + MySQL / Oracle to implement a search box which itself increases the complexity since you need a platform such as Heroku or GoogleCloudServers to put it on.With Firebase, you would have to implement a service like ElasticSearch or Algolia to get search working in your app.

CloudBoost also offers a bunch of unique features in accordance with your requirements for a delightful user experience such as:

Cache: It auto-caches some of the most requested data for you, so your queries run much faster than traditional MySQL / Oracle. It also has a cache API, so if you want to cache anything specific, you definitely can. This also makes fetching data faster for every subsequent request making your user experience extremely fast.

It auto-caches some of the most requested data for you, so your queries run much faster than traditional MySQL / Oracle. It also has a cache API, so if you want to cache anything specific, you definitely can. This also makes fetching data faster for every subsequent request making your user experience extremely fast. Queue: CloudBoost also has an implementation for queue data structure that helps you to channelize/handle multiple asynchronous jobs with a single output source. This helps you to connect your micro-services together.

CloudBoost also has an implementation for queue data structure that helps you to channelize/handle multiple asynchronous jobs with a single output source. This helps you to connect your micro-services together. Slack Integrations: CloudBoost also has an internal event based tracking system which is also exposed to you to configure on your own. It also allows you to integrate several third party plugins like Slack, Zapier and IFTTT so that in the case of any event, you get notified via these plugins.

CloudBoost also has an internal event based tracking system which is also exposed to you to configure on your own. It also allows you to integrate several third party plugins like Slack, Zapier and IFTTT so that in the case of any event, you get notified via these plugins. Files: CloudBoost allows you to store and stream files of any type/size. So you can push anything — Image, Video or Music to it.

CloudBoost allows you to store and stream files of any type/size. So you can push anything — Image, Video or Music to it. Docker support: CloudBoost was built to be deployed on cloud services. It is configured to run in a containerized environment like docker. It can be seamlessly deployed on any cloud platform using cloud orchestration tools like Kubernetes, Docker-swarm and many more. This is one of the biggest advantages of Cloudboost being Open Source which Firebase doesn’t offer right now.

Firebase is a great product by Google and does a few things better than CloudBoost like Analytics. However, CloudBoost team is working hard to build analytics too which integrates directly into your Slack and gives you intelligent notifications on events such as when the user signs up, which user is retaining, which user isn’t and why to make your experience the best every-time.

We care for you and your experience comes at our highest priority. With many more features such as graph relations, file processing , time series and many more coming up, we promise you will fall in love with CloudBoost and we’ll continue keeping our goals higher than your expectations and surpass them for you.

Let’s build your next BIG app together.