Firebase vs Supabase — I Built The Same App With Both

I built the same app using Firebae and Supabase. Supabase advertises itself as the Firebase open source but is that a fair comparison? In this video I put the two tech stacks head to head with each other to see how they compare.

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[Lakshmidasaa]

Kindly ensure to control background music, its very difficult to follow.

[randerins]

You all should keep in mind that this video is 7 months old. Currently, Supabase added more features at this point and it keeps growing.

[lardosian]

Firebase querying is quite limited, another win for Supabase. But you could also argue Firebase has the advantage of the suite of tools in GCP.

[hojdog]

The reasons I'm going supabase on my current client project:
1. Firestore is TERRIBLE for complex queries
2. Firebase functions have trash cold start times
3. Firebase SDKs are huge

In the future, I'll probably only go firebase when I really need both offline AND multi-user support (i.e. people accessing the same document, sometimes offline), I think that's where firestore shines since it handles conflicts itsself.

[mayankjain]

In my opinion, Supabase >> Firebase. The documentation that Supabase has is miles better than Firebase, within 5 minutes of reading the docs I was able to figure out how to setup auth as well as tables, whereas for Firebase this does not simply happen

[MuriloRavani]

Lovely content. Thank you so much for sharing!

I would just ask you to avoid background music in your following videos since this makes everything you're saying harder to understand if you're not a native English speaker :)

[Lightc]

5:15 - I find it funny that he mentions that Supabase is a startup and not as reliable, but we all know Google's track record with killing products lol!

[adamgeorge]

i subscribed within 30 seconds of your video. str8 to the point and short video. that is what we like.

[leonnoirsr]

Your project is an amazing idea! Wishing you godspeed!

[athu]

Hey! Really appreciate your opinion on this. Thank you ❤
If you could, in the future, make a video on How to Choose a Tech Stack for Your Startup, it would be really awesome. There’s literally no good video on this on YouTube.

[labrumco]

As far as I know, Firebase only supports iOS, Android, and web apps. Supabase supports all platforms, including Mac and Windows.

[potatobot]

You are doing amazing man! Top content!

[natebanks]

Put your timestamps onto the actual video! It will help so much more than just a frame in the video!

[compdave]

I like Supabase better, converting my firebase apps to Supabase. The one thing Firebase does better is 3rd party Auth. both do email auth very well. But Google and Apple auth is not documented well enough.

[jonniem]

its great you called out the timestamps. I do think it would be super helpful if the video was time stamped and in description. can’t imagine that’s very difficult since you already know the times

[gangstare]

Niceee Video. I like Firebase, I have been using it for a few years but the fact that you have to compromise for lack of relational database is annoying. Plus you are getting charged for the extra reads needed for database normalization.

[briank]

first thank you for sharing this content, it is spot on to what I was looking for and getting more feedback. that said please don't use background music when you are speaking. for people like me with hearing loss the background music (aka noise) just make it nearly impossible to understand you.

[arielleyaple]

supabase will eventually support unity.. what its important is flexibility and open source and community

[supernut]

For me, one of the major drawbacks of Firebase is that Firestore lacks the capability to perform queries with range filters on multiple fields.

[finkyfreak]

Tip for the next videos: lower your background music. It doesn't feel like it's playing on the background....