Why you should go with Firebase: Advantages and Disadvantages

Firebase a cloud service provider now is under Google. Today we will discuss why you should go with Firebase for creating apps quickly.
Firebase is not an ordinary database only. It is a realtime scalable back end and with it you can build apps that can easily serve millions of people across the globe.
The services provided by firebase can be seen in the below image.

Firebase is available for many platforms. You can build Apps for Android, iPhone, Web etc. Using firebase is also very easy as there are many official and unofficial firebase ios tutorial as well as firebase android tutorial exist.

Lets see some advantages of using Firebase

• If your app does run of a centralized DB, and is updated by a lot of users - then it's more than capable of handling the Real-Time data updates between devices. 
• Stored in the cloud so readily available everywhere. 
• Cross Platform API (If you are using this DB with an App) 
• They Host the data. -Meaning if you are storing a lot of data, you don't have to worry about hardware!

But with advantages there exist some disadvantages as well. 

Disadvantages of using Firebase

• Unless your app runs of one centralized database updated by a vast quantity of users, it's a major overkill. 
• Storage format is entirely different to that of SQL, (Firebase uses JSON) so you wouldn't be able to migrate that easily. 
• Reporting tools won't be anywhere near the ones of standard SQL. 
• Costs! -Limited to 50 Connections and 100mb of Storage! 
• You don't host the data, Firebase does. And depending on which server you get put on, viewing there up time there seems to be a lot of disruption lately.

But still some features of firebase which you have to use like Firebase Cloud Messaging. Though alternative for push notification exist but it is the service worth trying. As google will remove Google Cloud Messaging and will continue Firebase Cloud Messaging only.