What are the best alternatives to Firebase?

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13 Options Considered

Best alternatives to Firebase	Price	Platforms	Technology
80 Back4app	Free / paid	-	-
71 Kuzzle	Free / paid	-	-
70 Kinvey	-	-	-
65 Couchbase	Free / paid	-	-
-- RxDB	0	-	-

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score 81 · Answer 1

Back4app

Top Con

Vendor lock in

Top Pro

Reliable

The platform is reliable, allowing to scale up the applications running on it. See More

FriendlySupay's Experience

Good platform to scale apps. See More

Top Con

Uses MongoDB for the backend, which is not considered very safe by many

Back4App uses MongoDB as the database where data is stored. Mongo has been known to have issues with data corruption and data loss. See More

Top Pro

Free plan

Free plans available. See More

FlexibleVarmanpaz's Experience

I used the service for the last 3 years and it's pretty reliable. See More

Top Con

Parse framework

Only Parse framework is available now for coding. See More

Top Pro

Open source

Supported by the wide developer community. See More

HappyPuschkayts's Experience

Reliable hosting platform. See More

Top Pro

No vendor lock in

The user is not a hostage and can migrate the application to other hosting service whenever they want. See More

BrilliantBalor's Experience

Platform running for a long time and good alternative to Firebase. See More

Top Pro

BaaS

PoliteBangputys's Experience

I had a great experience using Back4App and it's the best open source option to replace Firebase. See More

Top Pro

Push notifications

Engages your users with Push messages. See More

ConscientiousHunabKu's Experience

Stable and reliable platform. See More

TruthfulPlutus's Experience

Reliable parse hosting platform. See More

IntelligentQuangeio's Experience

Established company and reliable hosting. See More

DiplomaticKurdalaegon's Experience

The service is very reliable and based on Open Source frameworks. See More

PerceptiveTulloun's Experience

Service is very reliable! See More

GraciousAtaiUlaan's Experience

You can start for free and after you scale the service is pretty reliable. :) See More

DreamerErato's Experience

Hosting is pretty reliable! See More

KindBrigid's Experience

Free plans are great for learning and development! The Starter $5 is also very affordable and is a good start for a individual developer with an small app. See More

CaffeinatedSopdet's Experience

I like because it's open source and hosting is pretty reliable. See More

AuthenticAnjea's Experience

Very positive! The backend is reliable and was also satisfied with technical support provided. See More

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score 48 · Answer 2

Kuzzle

Top Con

out of date

Top Pro

Realtime through filters

You do not connect to classic rooms but to search filters and can be warned of changes on permanent storage or volatile one. See More

MotivatedWepwawet's Experience

Not reliable. See More

Top Pro

Multiprotocol

Supports REST, WebSockets and MQ protocols. See More

PatientBanba's Experience

Not mature project. See More

Top Pro

Open Source

Kuzzle is open source and it's released under the Apache 2 License. See More

HappyPuschkayts's Experience

Focused on IoT and it's not similar to Firebase. See More

Top Pro

Javascript SDK

A fully documented javascript SDK exists. See More

Top Pro

Can be hosted everywhere

Using Docker, Vagrant or installing it by hands in 4 or 5 simple steps, you can host it virtually anywhere. See More

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score 19 · Answer 3

Kinvey

Top Con

The free plan isn't that good

Kinvey's free plan only includes the first 1000 users for free, 5 million push notifications (which admittedly, is pretty nice) and 2GB of storage. See More

Top Pro

Very easy to setup

Setting up a backend for an app with Kinvey is very easy and takes minutes. All you have to do is sign up and through their graphical interface follow all the steps, which boils down to creating tables and identifying the type of data that is being stored. Then you download the library, integrate it with your app and initialize the process with one single line. See More

Top Con

Costs are eye-wateringly high

The free tier is not that generous and as soon as you trip the paid tier it costs you thousands a month. See More

Top Pro

Simple and seamless user registration

User registration with Kinvey is pretty good and usually works without any problems. It's also very easy to use, you simply pass the username, password, email, etc. to the required method and register a callback that returns whether the registration was a success or a failure. Same thing is done for login and logout as well. See More

Top Pro

Asynchronous uploading of files

When you want to upload a file, you just create an object and initialize the file upload to the server (this is done asynchronously). See More

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score 31 · Answer 4

Couchbase

Top Con

No model mapper for Android

Couchbase does not have a model mapper for Android built-in and out of the box, instead you will have to write your own from scratch. See More

Top Pro

Open source

Couchbase and Couchbase Mobile are open source and released under the Apache License. See More

DiligentTibertus's Experience

Poor support. See More

Top Con

Not Compatible with couchdb

Since version 2 the sync-protocol is no longer compatible with couchdb. This makes couchbase nearly worthless See More

Top Pro

Easy to implement N1QL queries

Top Con

Vendor lock-in

Top Pro

Ability to run ad-hoc SQL like queries on realtime big data

Couchbase N1QL allows native SQL processing over JSON data with high performance indexing for low latency queries at scale. See More

Top Pro

Easy sync protocol to mobile devices

The minimal code needed to pull data down to a device See More

Top Pro

Available on Windows, Linux & macOS

Top Pro

Ability to make predefined fast queries

With Couchbase you can make "Views" of data, which are practically predefined queries which are fetched with an O(1) algorithm. See More

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score 29 · Answer 5

RxDB

Top Pro

You can subscribe to queries

You can get an observable from queries instead of manually handling events. See More

Top Con

Build size is over average

If you do not use the custom-build-option, the build size is about 100kb See More

Top Pro

Good documentation and examples

The documentation is good and there are example-apps for all major frameworks See More

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score 16 · Answer 6

Baasbox

Top Con

No longer maintained

Last commit is from 2015. See More

Top Pro

Easy to deploy

Deploying BaasBox is very simple, and the documentation on their site is very helpful and easy to understand. See More

Top Con

No JavaScript SDK

The JavaScript SDK is not yet released although it should be available in the near future. See More

Top Pro

Self hosted and hosted options

You can choose to either download and install Baasbox on your own server, or use their hosted solution. See More

Top Con

No Hosted Version

Baasbox has no hosted version. See More

Top Con

Good Typescript support

there are typings directly in the module See More

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score 2 · Answer 7

Supabase

Top Pro

Free version

Free and open-source version. See More

RickZeeland's Experience

Available in a free and open-source version. Can be used hosted or with a self-hosted PostgreSQL database and managed with the powerful Supabase PostgreSQL Studio. See More

Specs

Platforms:Web

Technology:Javascript

Top Pro

Hosted or Self-Hosted

An advantage over Firebase is that Supabase can be self-hosted. See More

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score 5 · Answer 8

remoteStorage

Top Pro

Free

Free and open source. See More

RickZeeland's Experience

JavaScript library which stores data locally in the browser, also connects to remoteStorage servers and syncs data. Can also sync data with a Dropbox or Google Drive account. See More

Specs

Platforms:Web, Self-Hosted

Top Pro

Offline support

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score 6 · Answer 9

Strapi

Top Con

No realtime

Top Pro

Authentication and permissions

Specs

Technology:Node.js

License:MIT

Multi Language Support:Yes

Template Engine:All

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Top Con

No managed hosting

Top Pro

Content Management

Top Pro

Open-source

Top Pro

Extensible Node.js framework

Top Pro

Plugin system

Top Pro

Admin panel

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score 3 · Answer 10

BagelDB

Top Pro

Great UX

Top Pro

Small learning curve

Top Pro

Real-time data

Top Pro

Nuxt.js Vue.js Libraries

Has an incredible Nuxt.js library. See More

Top Pro

User login

Has user login with super simple access control, that integrates seamlessly with the data. See More

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score 1 · Answer 11

kinto

Top Pro

Good for sensitive data

Since kinvey is a self-hosted solution, it can be used to store sensitive data (emails, financial data etc...) safely, since only the developer has access to the backend. See More

Top Con

No hosted version

In order to use kinto you have to download it and host it on your own server infrastructure. While it does help you avoid outsourcing your data to a third-party, it also adds the overhead of having to maintain a backend for your app. See More

score 2 · Answer 12

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Kumulos

Top Con

Weak documentation

Kumulos is lacking in the documentation department. A lot of things are explained in just a few sentences, with many things even being absent entirely. See More

Top Pro

Granular permissions

For companies or large teams of developers, where there are multiple projects being worked on at once, you can choose permissions for any developer and decide who gains access to each app on the backend. See More

Specs

Push Notifications:from $50.00 per app per month.

Analytics and Reporting:from $50.00 per month per app.

mBaaS:from $50.00 per month per app.

Crash Reporting:from $50.00 per month per app.

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13 Options Considered

My Recommendation for Back4app

My Recommendation for Back4app

Vendor lock in

Reliable

Uses MongoDB for the backend, which is not considered very safe by many

Free plan

Parse framework

Open source

No vendor lock in

BaaS

Push notifications

My Recommendation for Kuzzle

My Recommendation for Kuzzle

out of date

Realtime through filters

Multiprotocol

Open Source

Javascript SDK

Can be hosted everywhere

My Recommendation for Kinvey

My Recommendation for Kinvey

The free plan isn't that good

Very easy to setup

Costs are eye-wateringly high

Simple and seamless user registration

Asynchronous uploading of files

My Recommendation for Couchbase

My Recommendation for Couchbase

No model mapper for Android

Open source

Not Compatible with couchdb

Easy to implement N1QL queries

Vendor lock-in

Ability to run ad-hoc SQL like queries on realtime big data

Easy sync protocol to mobile devices

Available on Windows, Linux & macOS

Ability to make predefined fast queries

My Recommendation for RxDB

My Recommendation for RxDB

You can subscribe to queries

Build size is over average

Good documentation and examples

My Recommendation for Baasbox

My Recommendation for Baasbox

No longer maintained

Easy to deploy

No JavaScript SDK

Self hosted and hosted options

No Hosted Version

Good Typescript support

My Recommendation for Supabase

My Recommendation for Supabase

Free version

Hosted or Self-Hosted

My Recommendation for remoteStorage

My Recommendation for remoteStorage

Free

Offline support

My Recommendation for Strapi

My Recommendation for Strapi

No realtime

Authentication and permissions

No managed hosting

Content Management

Open-source

Extensible Node.js framework

Plugin system

Admin panel

My Recommendation for BagelDB

My Recommendation for BagelDB

Great UX

Small learning curve

Real-time data

Nuxt.js Vue.js Libraries

User login

My Recommendation for kinto

My Recommendation for kinto

Good for sensitive data

No hosted version