Google's app platform: Firestore documents, auth, functions, deep mobile SDKs.
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Firebase brand colours
Extracted from the artwork and ranked by how much of the mark each covers — not from a brand book, so treat them as observed rather than official.
What Firebase is
Firebase is the original realtime backend and still the most operationally proven. Firestore is a document store with live listeners and genuine offline persistence, wrapped in the best mobile SDKs on this list. Access control is a proprietary rules language evaluated per document. Nothing is self-hostable, there is no SQL, and the managed export format is readable only by Firestore's own importer.
Recent changes
- 2025-05-20Google launches Firebase Studio
At I/O 2025 Google put an agentic app builder in front of Firebase, generating Firestore schemas, rules and functions from prompts. It sharpens the trade Firebase has always offered: the fastest possible start, on the least portable stack in this comparison.