I evaluated firebase and it convinced me to use couchdb+pouchdb. The things firebase improved were nice but not worth it and ultimately running our own DBs in E

I evaluated firebase and it convinced me to use couchdb+pouchdb. The things firebase improved were nice but not worth it and ultimately running our own DBs in European providers without external auth was less stressful for legal and estimating costs, performance, etc. For the criticisms not related to SaaS, some of them look like familiar debates, and I'd say a drawback of using noSQL is that I have something that looks ready faster but then I need to consciously hold it back from production until I've thought through structural problems which I would have worked out first in SQL.