Compare · Google's app development platform
Aaly vs Firebase
Firebase is Google's mobile and web app platform: Firestore or Realtime Database (schemaless document stores), client-side SDKs, hand-written security rules, hosting, and Cloud Functions. Its pitch is not having to think about servers, backed by Google's infrastructure and a wide SDK ecosystem.
Choose Firebase instead if
- ·You want a mature realtime database with live sync built in. Aaly has no realtime or subscriptions today.
- ·You're building mobile-first and want Google's SDK ecosystem of auth providers, push notifications, crashlytics in one place.
- ·You're comfortable authoring and maintaining Firestore security rules yourself as the schema grows.
Where Aaly differs
- →Firestore has no structured schema for an agent (or a person) to reason about. Two documents in the same collection can have different shapes, which makes safe automated changes hard to reason about.
- →Aaly's fields, types, and relationships are explicit and validated from the definition, so an agent changing the model is working against a real contract, not a convention.
- →Security in Firebase is rules you write per collection; in Aaly, tenant isolation and validation are properties of the platform, not code you maintain.
| Firebase | Aaly | |
|---|---|---|
| Data shape | Schemaless documents | Typed entities and fields |
| Relationships | Manual denormalization | Typed reference fields, 3 levels deep |
| Realtime | Live sync built in | Not available: poll or bolt on a third party |
| Access control | Security rules you write | Tenant isolation enforced by the platform |
| Agent-editability | No schema to reason about safely | A defined contract an agent can read and change |