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Having used both AWS Lamda + DynamoDB and Firebase Functions + Firestore, I would say Firebase is much much simpler than AWS anything and documentation is just
by soygul 7y ago
Having used both AWS Lamda + DynamoDB and Firebase Functions + Firestore, I would say Firebase is much much simpler than AWS anything and documentation is just excellent. However Firestore has major restrictions and is ridiculously expensive.
I guess great open-source starter kits still didn't catch up to serverless stuff so it makes jumping in a bit harder. And yes, the restrictions all need workarounds for now. But every year I check serverless stuff, it gets better. I guess it is just not there yet at the moment.
- databrecht 7y agoDid you try FaunaDB by any chance? I'm interested in how people who have worked with DynamoDB and Firestore would perceive FaunaDB once they get started. Imho it's is the most serverless database on the market at this point due to features such as: pay as you go, distributed, strongly consistent, security model and their API. When I started using it a while back it didn't feel limited to me at all. (Disclaimer, I have started to work there in the mean time)
- soygul 7y agoI didn't. I briefly checked it out while researching new scalable databases but Fauna looked so young so I didn't dig deeper so I cannot make a comparison.