Firebase - Overview

As per official Firebase documentation −

Firebase can power your app's backend, including data storage, user authentication, static hosting, and more. Focus on creating extraordinary user experiences. We'll take care of the rest. Build cross-platform native mobile and web apps with our Android, iOS, and JavaScript SDKs. You can also connect Firebase to your existing backend using our server-side libraries or our REST API.

Firebase Features

• Realtime Database − Firebase supports JSON data and all users connected to it receive live updates after every change.
• Authentication − You can use anonymous, password or different social authentication.
• Hosting − The apps can be deployed over secured connection to Firebase servers.

Firebase Advantages

• It is simple and user friendly. No need for complicated configuration.
• The data is realtime which means that every change will automatically update connected clients.
• Firebase offers simple control dashboard.
• There are number of useful services to choose from.

Firebase Limitations

• Firebase free plan is limited to 50 Connections and 100mb of storage.