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Firebase is awesome! Realtime has become a great selling point with my clients (and a necessity for things like chat apps). However, after doing over 20 apps wi
by bikamonki 10y ago
Firebase is awesome! Realtime has become a great selling point with my clients (and a necessity for things like chat apps). However, after doing over 20 apps with Firebase I've had to combine with other PAAS due to some features missing/lacking: server-side code (event-driven like Parse had or like AWS Lambda) and better/easier search features. In the second case for instance, let's imagine a support app, it makes more sense to use a traditional SQL DB for objects like tickets, customers, etc while using Firebase for a realtime chat inside a ticket. Even a hosted Non-SQL with some good collection search feature is a better fit rather than using Firebase.
- oaktowner 10y agoGoogle PM here. You might want to look at Google Cloud's storage offerings (both SQL and non-SQL based), as well as its compute offerings (including Cloud Functions, which is event driven). One note: Cloud Functions was just announced and is still in alpha.
- bikamonki 10y agoI am aware of the suggested services; however, the ideal would be to have them seamlessly integrated to Firebase.