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I'm building on top of Firebase at the moment, and this is exactly the sort of thing I'm afraid of.

teebot 11y ago
I'm afraid google will kill firebase too. I built some sort of mvp with firebase and I intend to port it to express/postgres.
- arungupta 11y ago
  Consider moving to Couchbase Mobile (http://developer.couchbase.com/mobile http://developer.couchbase.com/mobile). Why? - Its an open source solution that allows you to build mobile applications that work online and offline. - With Couchbase Lite, you have the full power of a Couchbase database locally on the device. You can create, update, delete, query, sync and much, much more. - Couchbase Sync Gateway gives you everything you need to securely sync on-device Couchbase Lite with Couchbase Server in the cloud. -- Replication -- Authentication -- Access Control -- Data Routing - Couchbase Server is a high performance, scalable, always-on NoSQL database in the cloud. Sub-millisecond, high-throughput reads and writes give you consistent high performance. Couchbase Server is easy to scale out, and supports topology changes with no downtime.
  - jaxondu 11y ago
    Too many spam posts from you about Couchbase Mobile. Anyway I do not see the similarity. Parse is hosted platform, build for mobile developers that do not want to self-host the backends, with affordable entry cost. Couchbase Mobile is a product offering with licensing and paid subscriptions for support, pricing has to be requested in order to know the exact, and the backends (Couchbase Sync Gateway and Couchbase Server) starts few thousands dollars per node. And we have to deploy and host the backends (whether we choose to buy or use the free community version). One can choose IBM Cloudant to host, but then Cloudant is hosting CouchDB compatible database and you'd miss the Couchbase Sync Gateway component, which is the main selling points (sync, offline) of Couchbase Mobile. Correct me if wrong.
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bsaul 11y ago
i used to be scared using app engine, but this was for start ups that really couldn't afford using anything else. They gained so much time and saved so much money, it was worth the risk. But firebase ?? Unless you need real-time capabilities at the DB level, i really don't see the point.
mayop100 11y ago
[Firebase founder here] Google is 100% behind us, and we're continuing to make big investments in the platform. If you have concerns, feel free to ask me questions on twitter: twitter.com/startupandrew
- henrify 11y ago
  And Facebook was 100% behind Parse, just short time ago. If anything Google is probably THE most aggressive company in discontinuing products: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products#Discontinued_products_and_services https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products#Discon...

I'm afraid google will kill firebase too. I built some sort of mvp with firebase and I intend to port it to express/postgres.

arungupta 11y ago
Consider moving to Couchbase Mobile (http://developer.couchbase.com/mobile http://developer.couchbase.com/mobile). Why? - Its an open source solution that allows you to build mobile applications that work online and offline. - With Couchbase Lite, you have the full power of a Couchbase database locally on the device. You can create, update, delete, query, sync and much, much more. - Couchbase Sync Gateway gives you everything you need to securely sync on-device Couchbase Lite with Couchbase Server in the cloud. -- Replication -- Authentication -- Access Control -- Data Routing - Couchbase Server is a high performance, scalable, always-on NoSQL database in the cloud. Sub-millisecond, high-throughput reads and writes give you consistent high performance. Couchbase Server is easy to scale out, and supports topology changes with no downtime.
- jaxondu 11y ago
  Too many spam posts from you about Couchbase Mobile. Anyway I do not see the similarity. Parse is hosted platform, build for mobile developers that do not want to self-host the backends, with affordable entry cost. Couchbase Mobile is a product offering with licensing and paid subscriptions for support, pricing has to be requested in order to know the exact, and the backends (Couchbase Sync Gateway and Couchbase Server) starts few thousands dollars per node. And we have to deploy and host the backends (whether we choose to buy or use the free community version). One can choose IBM Cloudant to host, but then Cloudant is hosting CouchDB compatible database and you'd miss the Couchbase Sync Gateway component, which is the main selling points (sync, offline) of Couchbase Mobile. Correct me if wrong.

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bsaul 11y ago

i used to be scared using app engine, but this was for start ups that really couldn't afford using anything else. They gained so much time and saved so much money, it was worth the risk. But firebase ?? Unless you need real-time capabilities at the DB level, i really don't see the point.

mayop100 11y ago

[Firebase founder here] Google is 100% behind us, and we're continuing to make big investments in the platform. If you have concerns, feel free to ask me questions on twitter: twitter.com/startupandrew

henrify 11y ago
And Facebook was 100% behind Parse, just short time ago. If anything Google is probably THE most aggressive company in discontinuing products: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products#Discontinued_products_and_services https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products#Discon...