What type of cloud service is Firebase?

Firebase is a Backend-as-a-Service — BaaS — that started as a YC11 startup and grew up into a next-generation app-development platform on Google Cloud Platform.24 Eki 2016

Yes! Firebase is Google’s mobile development platform that empowers you to quickly build and grow your app. It’s built so that you’re able to easily pull in Google Cloud products as your team or infrastructure needs grow.

Firebase and Microsoft Azure are primarily classified as “Realtime Backend / API” and “Cloud Hosting” tools respectively . Some of the features offered by Firebase are: Add the Firebase library to your app and get access to a shared data structure.

The Firebase Realtime Database is a cloud-hosted NoSQL database that lets you store and sync data between your users in realtime.