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Yeah, I agree that open sourcing Firebase is too much to ask. But there's other things they could be doing: a) document the wire protocol and license the clie
by piotrkaminski 10y ago
Yeah, I agree that open sourcing Firebase is too much to ask. But there's other things they could be doing: a) document the wire protocol and license the clients for free use with any server, b) make the API definitions public domain and provide a compatibility test suite for alternative implementations, c) lead a standardization effort on real-time JSON databases, etc...
- stemuk 10y agoTrue, maybe https://github.com/firebase https://github.com/firebase could help with some reverse engineering. However, I discovered the Firebase document and the deepstream.io record structure to be fairly similar, so with the help of https://github.com/firebase/firebase-queue https://github.com/firebase/firebase-queue the migration from Firebase to deepstream.io + RethinkDB might be possible. As a more general note, I would expect some of the stuff you mentioned to happen in the upcoming months/years, since Firebase is right now set to become the universal plattform for app devs (analytics, dynamic links etc.) rather than a standalone database offering.