Firebase

What do you like best?

Firebase is an open-source Realtime Database that is very efficient. Integrating it with my applications is much easier and quicker as it has all the essential documents available on its official site. The analytics is also carried out by firebase, and it provides all the information required at the figure tips. It is easy to add authentication and many other services on top of the application as firebase offers various other services.

One of the best things about the Firebase database is that it provides real-time data management for free of cost. Also, it has an ample about of resources to get started of, and also most of the developers use this for their project because of easy integration and rich functionality. It has easy integration with a third-party application, websites, and much more.

Thus, it is one of the most popular and in-demand platforms for many developers.

What do you dislike?

Firebase's Cloud Firestore has some limitations, such as the document should not be of more than 1Mega Byte and should not contain more than 100 fields. This is something that hampers productivity when we are trying to use it for larger applications.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

I recommend users use it for the real-time database. It is easy to start with a database in a hierarchy form.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

As Firebase is real-time, the most significant advantage is handling the data flow in real-time for any of the applications. It's easy to integrate and use various platforms such as android, IOS, Web, and many more. It has the inbuilt feature of analytics and supports the JSON import-export for the database.

I don't see the limitation in this rich functional platform; the only cons are the limited data storage and limited active users at one time. If there are 100 active users at a single time, it gives less response to the users and needs to be updated for the paid database.