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Alternatives to Firebase Cloud Messaging

OneSignal, Google Cloud Messaging, Firebase, Amazon SNS, and Kafka are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Firebase Cloud Messaging.
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What is Firebase Cloud Messaging and what are its top alternatives?

It is a cross-platform messaging solution that lets you reliably deliver messages at no cost. You can notify a client app that new email or other data is available to sync. You can send notification messages to drive user re-engagement and retention. For use cases such as instant messaging, a message can transfer a payload of up to 4KB to a client app.
Firebase Cloud Messaging is a tool in the Mobile Push Messaging category of a tech stack.

Top Alternatives to Firebase Cloud Messaging

  • OneSignal
    OneSignal

    OneSignal is a high volume push notification service for websites and mobile applications. OneSignal supports all major native and mobile platforms by providing dedicated SDKs for each platform, a RESTful server API, and a dashboard. ...

  • Google Cloud Messaging
    Google Cloud Messaging

    Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) is a free service that enables developers to send messages between servers and client apps. This includes downstream messages from servers to client apps, and upstream messages from client apps to servers. ...

  • Firebase
    Firebase

    Firebase is a cloud service designed to power real-time, collaborative applications. Simply add the Firebase library to your application to gain access to a shared data structure; any changes you make to that data are automatically synchronized with the Firebase cloud and with other clients within milliseconds. ...

  • Amazon SNS
    Amazon SNS

    Amazon Simple Notification Service makes it simple and cost-effective to push to mobile devices such as iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire, and internet connected smart devices, as well as pushing to other distributed services. Besides pushing cloud notifications directly to mobile devices, SNS can also deliver notifications by SMS text message or email, to Simple Queue Service (SQS) queues, or to any HTTP endpoint. ...

  • Kafka
    Kafka

    Kafka is a distributed, partitioned, replicated commit log service. It provides the functionality of a messaging system, but with a unique design. ...

  • SignalR
    SignalR

    SignalR allows bi-directional communication between server and client. Servers can now push content to connected clients instantly as it becomes available. SignalR supports Web Sockets, and falls back to other compatible techniques for older browsers. SignalR includes APIs for connection management (for instance, connect and disconnect events), grouping connections, and authorization. ...

  • Pusher
    Pusher

    Pusher is the category leader in delightful APIs for app developers building communication and collaboration features. ...

  • MQTT
    MQTT

    It was designed as an extremely lightweight publish/subscribe messaging transport. It is useful for connections with remote locations where a small code footprint is required and/or network bandwidth is at a premium. ...

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OneSignal

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PROS OF ONESIGNAL
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    Free of cost
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    More parametrable
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    Simple and Easy To Use. Well Documented :)
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    Device to device
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    Simple
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    Many Platforms
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    Great support
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    Free
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    Flexibility in working with web, android and iOS
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    Lukas Bergamo
    CEO & Founder at ¹OnePlace · | 7 upvotes · 432.6K views
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    At the beginning of the ¹OnePlace project, our team needed to decide which service to use to send bulk notifications to all users quickly and consistently. We tested some services without success and as we already used firebase we decided to implement in the beginning using Notifications by Firebase. We're having trouble updating the user's token to see if it has removed the app or not. This brought a working overhead and we were not sure if the notification had arrived at the destination. Today we use OneSignal, which did not bring reliability to the submitted notifications, nor do we need to bother with manual token updates. We ship approximately 500 thousand notifications with 100% delivery!

    OneSignal Firebase

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    Yasmine de Aranda
    Chief Growth Officer at Huddol · | 7 upvotes · 365.2K views

    Hi there, we are a seed-stage startup in the personal development space. I am looking at building the marketing stack tool to have an accurate view of the user experience from acquisition through to adoption and retention for our upcoming React Native Mobile app. We qualify for the startup program of Segment and Mixpanel, which seems like a good option to get rolling and scale for free to learn how our current 60K free members will interact in the new subscription-based platform. I was considering AppsFlyer for attribution, and I am now looking at an affordable yet scalable Mobile Marketing tool vs. building in-house. Braze looks great, so does Leanplum, but the price points are 30K to start, which we can't do. I looked at OneSignal, but it doesn't have user flow visualization. I am now looking into Urban Airship and Iterable. Any advice would be much appreciated!

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    Google Cloud Messaging

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    PROS OF GOOGLE CLOUD MESSAGING
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      Scalable
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      Easy setup
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      Easy iOS setup
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      IOS Support
    CONS OF GOOGLE CLOUD MESSAGING
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      Reliability

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    Firebase

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      Easy setup
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      Real-time
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      JSON
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      Free
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      Backed by google
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      Angular adaptor
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      Reliable
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      Great customer support
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      Great documentation
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      Real-time synchronization
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      Mobile friendly
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      Rapid prototyping
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      Great security
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      Automatic scaling
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      Freakingly awesome
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      Super fast development
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      Angularfire is an amazing addition!
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      Chat
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      Built in user auth/oauth
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      Ios adaptor
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      Awesome next-gen backend
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      Firebase hosting
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      Speed of light
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      Very easy to use
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      Great
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      It's made development super fast
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      Brilliant for startups
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      The concurrent updates create a great experience
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      Push notification
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      Cloud functions
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      Free hosting
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      Free authentication solution
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      JS Offline and Sync suport
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      Low battery consumption
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      I can quickly create static web apps with no backend
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      Great all-round functionality
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      Easy to use
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      Free SSL
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      Faster workflow
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      Google's support
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      CDN & cache out of the box
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      Simple and easy
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      Serverless
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      No open source, you depend on external company
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      Scalability is not infinite
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      Not Flexible Enough
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      Cant filter queries
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      Very unstable server
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      No Relational Data
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      Too many errors
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      No offline sync

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    Stephen Gheysens
    Lead Solutions Engineer at Inscribe · | 14 upvotes · 1.8M views

    Hi Otensia! I'd definitely recommend using the skills you've already got and building with JavaScript is a smart way to go these days. Most platform services have JavaScript/Node SDKs or NPM packages, many serverless platforms support Node in case you need to write any backend logic, and JavaScript is incredibly popular - meaning it will be easy to hire for, should you ever need to.

    My advice would be "don't reinvent the wheel". If you already have a skill set that will work well to solve the problem at hand, and you don't need it for any other projects, don't spend the time jumping into a new language. If you're looking for an excuse to learn something new, it would be better to invest that time in learning a new platform/tool that compliments your knowledge of JavaScript. For this project, I might recommend using Netlify, Vercel, or Google Firebase to quickly and easily deploy your web app. If you need to add user authentication, there are great examples out there for Firebase Authentication, Auth0, or even Magic (a newcomer on the Auth scene, but very user friendly). All of these services work very well with a JavaScript-based application.

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    Tassanai Singprom

    This is my stack in Application & Data

    JavaScript PHP HTML5 jQuery Redis Amazon EC2 Ubuntu Sass Vue.js Firebase Laravel Lumen Amazon RDS GraphQL MariaDB

    My Utilities Tools

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    My Business Tools

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    Amazon SNS

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    PROS OF AMAZON SNS
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      Supports multi subscribers
    CONS OF AMAZON SNS
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      Cyril Duchon-Doris

      We decided to use AWS Lambda for several serverless tasks such as

      • Managing AWS backups
      • Processing emails received on Amazon SES and stored to Amazon S3 and notified via Amazon SNS, so as to push a message on our Redis so our Sidekiq Rails workers can process inbound emails
      • Pushing some relevant Amazon CloudWatch metrics and alarms to Slack
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      Manish Mishra
      Lead Consultant at Knoldus Software LLp · | 6 upvotes · 242.4K views
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      Amazon PinpointAmazon PinpointAmazon SNSAmazon SNS

      Instead of Amazon SNS, which is currently being used to send outbound push notification and including SMS, we want to build the 2 Way SMS using Amazon Pinpoint. Just want to know about Pinpoint and any outstanding issues if we drop SNS since it does not support 2 Way and use Pinpoint for both incoming and outgoing flow.

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      Kafka

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        Publish-Subscribe
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        Simple-to-use
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        Open source
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        Written in Scala and java. Runs on JVM
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        Message broker + Streaming system
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        KSQL
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        Avro schema integration
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        Robust
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        Suport Multiple clients
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        Extremely good parallelism constructs
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        Partioned, replayable log
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        Simple publisher / multi-subscriber model
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        Non-Java clients are second-class citizens
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        Needs Zookeeper
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        Operational difficulties
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        Terrible Packaging

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      Eric Colson
      Chief Algorithms Officer at Stitch Fix · | 21 upvotes · 6.1M views

      The algorithms and data infrastructure at Stitch Fix is housed in #AWS. Data acquisition is split between events flowing through Kafka, and periodic snapshots of PostgreSQL DBs. We store data in an Amazon S3 based data warehouse. Apache Spark on Yarn is our tool of choice for data movement and #ETL. Because our storage layer (s3) is decoupled from our processing layer, we are able to scale our compute environment very elastically. We have several semi-permanent, autoscaling Yarn clusters running to serve our data processing needs. While the bulk of our compute infrastructure is dedicated to algorithmic processing, we also implemented Presto for adhoc queries and dashboards.

      Beyond data movement and ETL, most #ML centric jobs (e.g. model training and execution) run in a similarly elastic environment as containers running Python and R code on Amazon EC2 Container Service clusters. The execution of batch jobs on top of ECS is managed by Flotilla, a service we built in house and open sourced (see https://github.com/stitchfix/flotilla-os).

      At Stitch Fix, algorithmic integrations are pervasive across the business. We have dozens of data products actively integrated systems. That requires serving layer that is robust, agile, flexible, and allows for self-service. Models produced on Flotilla are packaged for deployment in production using Khan, another framework we've developed internally. Khan provides our data scientists the ability to quickly productionize those models they've developed with open source frameworks in Python 3 (e.g. PyTorch, sklearn), by automatically packaging them as Docker containers and deploying to Amazon ECS. This provides our data scientist a one-click method of getting from their algorithms to production. We then integrate those deployments into a service mesh, which allows us to A/B test various implementations in our product.

      For more info:

      #DataScience #DataStack #Data

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      John Kodumal

      As we've evolved or added additional infrastructure to our stack, we've biased towards managed services. Most new backing stores are Amazon RDS instances now. We do use self-managed PostgreSQL with TimescaleDB for time-series data—this is made HA with the use of Patroni and Consul.

      We also use managed Amazon ElastiCache instances instead of spinning up Amazon EC2 instances to run Redis workloads, as well as shifting to Amazon Kinesis instead of Kafka.

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        Fallback to SSE, forever frame, long polling
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        WebSockets
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      We need to interact from several different Web applications (remote) to a client-side application (.exe in .NET Framework, Windows.Console under our controlled environment). From the web applications, we need to send and receive data and invoke methods to client-side .exe on javascript events like users onclick. SignalR is one of the .Net alternatives to do that, but it adds overhead for what we need. Is it better to add SignalR at both client-side application and remote web application, or use gRPC as it sounds lightest and is multilingual?

      SignalR or gRPC are always sending and receiving data on the client-side (from browser to .exe and back to browser). And web application is used for graphical visualization of data to the user. There is no need for local .exe to send or interact with remote web API. Which architecture or framework do you suggest to use in this case?

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        Easy and fast to configure and to understand
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        JSON
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      Which messaging service (Pusher vs. PubNub vs. Google Cloud Pub/Sub) to use for IoT?

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      Kirill Shirinkin
      Cloud and DevOps Consultant at mkdev · | 3 upvotes · 470.1K views
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      Recently we finished long research on chat tool for our students and mentors. In the end we picked Mattermost Team Edition as the cheapest and most feature complete option. We did consider building everything from scratch and use something like Pusher or Twilio on a backend, but then we would have to implement all the desktop and mobile clients and all the features oursevles. Mattermost gave us flexible API, lots of built in or easy to install integrations and future-proof feature set. We are still integrating it with our main platform but so far the team, existing mentors and students are very happy.

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        Easy to configure in an unsecure manner

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      Kindly suggest the best tool for generating 10Mn+ concurrent user load. The tool must support MQTT traffic, REST API, support to interfaces such as Kafka, websockets, persistence HTTP connection, auth type support to assess the support /coverage.

      The tool can be integrated into CI pipelines like Azure Pipelines, GitHub, and Jenkins.

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      A Nielsen
      Fullstack Dev at ADTELA · | 2 upvotes · 210.5K views

      Hi Marc,

      For the com part, depending of more details not provided, i'd use SSE, OR i'd run either Mosquitto or RabbitMQ running on Amazon EC2 instances and leverage MQTT or amqp 's subscribe/publish features with my users running mqtt or amqp clients (tcp or websockets) somehow. (publisher too.. you don't say how and who gets to update the document(s).

      I find "a ton of end users", depending on how you define a ton (1k users ;) ?) and how frequent document updates are, that can mean a ton of ressources, can't cut it at some point, even using SSE

      how many, how big, how persistant do the document(s) have to be ? Db-wise,can't say for lack of details and context, yeah could also be Redis, any RDBMS or nosql or even static json files stored on an Amazon S3 bucket .. anything really

      Good luck!

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