I tried 5 Firebase alternatives

Firebase leads the backend-as-a-service space, but there are many popular alternatives like AWS amplify, Supabase, Nhost, MongoDB Realm, Appwrite, and Parse. Let's compare the pros and cons of fully-managed cloud services.

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[stefnirk]

Supabase is open source, can be self-hosted, and connected to an in-house Postgres database; this is a massive benefit if you want to make a commercial product.

[wholesome]

"All about that Bass, 'bout that Bass, about that FireBass, NoSQL" - Fireship 2022

[naxaes]

Am currently making my own alternative right now! It's written in C with the performance of Python and can host up to a two-digit number of people. It has a guaranteed uptime of (yep, that's 11 9's) and supports a large subset of both HTTP 1.1 and JSON. It's also monolithic, so it can be easily upgraded by buying better hardware, and you have LTS support as long as people are volunteering in the open-source community.

Once it's done I'm thinking of releasing it for free, but with the option of a paid subscription if you want it to work. So stay tuned, and am looking forward to seeing it on a video in the near future!

[iamtheVRTEX]

"I'm not some apex alpha giga chad building my own backend in Rust just to serve 5 MAUs". I somehow feel both validated and attacked by this comment.

[galaxies_dev]

Been using Supabase for quite some time and love it - but it’s a great overview about all options out there. What a time to be a developer 🙌

[embedyt]

I've used Appwrite for a tiny project and it was actually really nice to use. I definitely recommend it (and might even use it more when their cloud releases)

[yanndonazzolo]

Great video (as always)! About Amplify, there is a massive advantage because you can define all your infrastructure directly in your codebase without touching a dashboard. So you can duplicate it easily for several environments with great cicd integration which makes it the only one in the list I feel confortable using in prod

[aarond]

I’ve used Parse because I couldn’t use Firebase, it works extremely well and is relatively easy for even a novice programmer like myself to use

[justine_chang]

it seems to me that Firebase would be absolutely PERFECT if it had the following features for Firestore...
1. Full text search
2. Ability to know the number of documents in a collection without reading everything
3. A GraphQL API
4. Also maybe protected fields in a document? (only accessible by users with certain permissions)

NHost is an incredible time saver for me. It's build on open-source tools and has very generous free tier. It's also very performant. I have 100M+ rows in a table and still get sub 150ms responses on Frontend. (I'm not affiliated in any way, just love the product).

[poorpotato]

I watch most youtube videos on my 2nd monitor while I'm doing something else, but your videos are so dense and well put together that I have to sit and pay attention to all the little details and memes that you pack into every second. Great content!

[owenwexler]

You've inspired me to seriously consider using a BaaS after having built and maintained a few backends the old school way. Lots of research, testing, and prototyping in my future.

[MrIMacro]

For beginner Android developers, I think Firebase is a good choice because you can connect your project with only one click and have everything ready for you, but it should be only used for things like authentication, sign in and real time database, but storage and bandwidth are very limited in the free plan.

[coreyclemente]

I very recently learned about "Serverless Cloud" from serverless. Still playing around with it, but I'm loving it so far. Built on top of AWS, with wrappers for DynamoDB, S3, APIs, etc.

[magicbinbin]

Great video, just I think you missed an important aspect of Supabase: unlike Firebase, you can actually self-host your own Supabase instance, if you need

[imbenzenker]

OMG I can't believe Parse is back!! I remember being in love with that service

[briansunbury]

I tried amplify recently and it looked really good when I was getting started but was missing some basic functionality that a lot of other people seemed to be looking for as well. I'd recommend everyone to play with all the suggestions in order to learn what each one has and what works well and what doesn't.

[sakkarinsawad]

Honestly once explained it's fairly intuitive. Thank you for breaking it down so nicely for us newbies! Can't wait to play with the full version

[drupi.]

Currently self-hosting appwrite and I love it. I'm using it on a community project right now and it just works perfectly.

[mr_clean]

I feel like there's been quite some updates with these tools. I'd love to see another video on BaaS