Thursday, October 1, 2015

Small Note on Parse Vs Firebase

For mobile app developers, picking and choosing a server or cloud solution for things like storage, push notifications, user information and analytics can be a struggle.

We have few servers like parse, firebase and more which helps us in doing all the job of backend without writing a single line of code.

We will compare Parse Vs Firebase in the post.

Heads up: you're comparing apples to oranges. Tools belonging to different groups are often not directly comparable because they usually have different intended purposes, benefits and need.




Firebase

Parse

Description

Real-time cloud data service
Complete technology stack for building mobile apps

Storage

NoSQL
SQL

Setup

Easy
Easy

Documentation

Great Documentation
Well documented

Hosting

Yes
Yes

Supports

Android/iOS/REST/Web
Android/iOS/REST/Web/PHP/.NET and more

Authentication



Firebase makes authentication easy. It can integrate with your existing login server, or authenticate users with only client-side code. It has built-in functionality for email & password, and third-party providers such as Facebook, Twitter, GitHub, and Google.
Users can be created through traditional username/password signup, through a third-party login system like Facebook or Twitter, or even by using Parse's automatic anonymous users functionality.

Offline/Local Data Storage

Yes
Yes

Analytics

Yes
Yes

Security & Rules

Yes
Yes

File Storage

No
Yes

Push Notification

No
Yes

Realtime Communcation

Yes
No

Crash Reporting

No
Yes



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