What's the difference between google app engine and firebase?

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Lim Ta Sheng

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May 26, 2016, 11:15:34 PM5/26/16
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What's the difference between google app engine and firebase?

dinoboff

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May 27, 2016, 9:21:43 AM5/27/16
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GAE is an application platform, to host application backend. Firebase is a database that can be accessed directly from the client side (web, ios, Android...).

With Firebase you don't need to program a server side application just to store data.

Barry Hunter

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May 27, 2016, 9:46:31 AM5/27/16
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On 27 May 2016 at 04:15, Lim Ta Sheng <limtas...@gmail.com> wrote:
What's the difference between google app engine and firebase?

You could pretty much build Firebase itself with App Engine. 

(DataStore for the actual data, Channel API for the server <-> client communication, static files, for the latest client serving. Integrate Cloud Storage (or the BlobStore !) to host user applications. )

Don't think it is in actual fact, but maybe parts of it are, who knows. 


You couldn't really build App Engine with Firebase!

 
(doesnt directly answer the question, but serve to illustrate they are very different things) 

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