Anybody know what Firebase’s competitors are? Help me out here.
Medplum expands on this concept by adding tools specific to digital health, such as a FHIR data schema for interoperability, EHR integration, and SMART App launching for embedding applications inside legacy EHRs
Imagine you are new to cloud world and you want to deploy production ready web app (not a toy project). With Firebase you can confidently and quickly make the app with little learning. This confident part is very important, with AWS you have to fight with AWS configuration for months, then also you may have doubts.
Firebase is acquired by Google-Cloud but still exists as a separate entity. For every Firebase project there is a behind the scene Google-Cloud project created.
My main complaint is their databases (they have two db's). RealtimeDB(which I believe will be deprecated) and FirestoreDB. FirestoreDB is proprietary and limited in features. For example there is no way to have a auto-increment(which is often used in many applications). The work-around suggested by Firestore auto-increment is very ugly. Direct editing and modifying the data (not programmatically) in FirestoreDB is a pain. There is no official db-query feature, if you have more data (like more than 1000 elements) their webUI to navigate FirestoreDB data is of no use.
I'm going to guess without even looking there are about 100,000 YouTube videos alone on the topic firebase. Medium and substack will have a heap of articles. Firebase has a website.
You're going to be ignored or worse get hate on hn posting long winded questions that could have been a single-term search on Google. It's quite literally a waste of everyone's time, yours included.
If you're looking for a hn flavored description, that's understandable, but again... Single term search would have taken you less time and effort than your post, and you'd already have the answer.
I pose this rhetorical question with love and respect, but why would anyone want to do (extremely trivial) research for you?