When comparing Marketcloud vs Google Firebase, the Slant community recommends Google Firebase for most people. In the question“What are the best iOS BaaS (Backend as a Service) providers?” Google Firebase is ranked 1st while Marketcloud is ranked 5th. The most important reason people chose Google Firebase is:
The Blaze Plan is a pay-as-you-go plan, which is, you pay for what you use, without overhead or upfront costs.
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Pros
Pro E-commerce oriented
It's e-commerce oriented, so if you need to build an e-commerce mobile app you don't have to re-define common resources such as Categories Brands Products and Carts.
Pro Can be modified to be used not only for e-commerce
While it's true that it's built for creating e-commerce apps, every resource can be extended with metadata in order to use it for many use cases.
Pro Cross-platform
Can be used for mobile app as well as web applications.
Pro Flexible Pricing
The Blaze Plan is a pay-as-you-go plan, which is, you pay for what you use, without overhead or upfront costs.
Pro Straightforward hosting
Powered by Google's Cloud Platform, Firebase allows you to deploy static web pages or web applications with a nifty Node.js-based CLI Tool.
Pro Super fast CDN
All static website content is hosted on the Fastly CDN making your website really fast.
Pro More than just hosting web applications
In the core of Firebase allows you to do testing for Android apps, Analytics, Real-time Database, and many more. It's centered mostly for progressive web applications and mobile applications with real-time connectivity to your service.
Pro Almost free if you add Cloudflare in front (no bandwidth costs) and cache effectively
The built-in CDN is great too, but if you're concerned about bandwidth costs, using it with Cloudflare is an excellent option option.
Cons
Con No free plan
There is no free plan available. Pricing starts at 19€/Month.
Con Google blocks Access
Some Google services, software and cloud systems, are not available to certain countries. blocked access by google following USA Policies.
Con Linked to Google Cloud Platform
If you don't have a Google Account, you won't be able to access Google cloud services, including this one.