Most of the database concerns have been addressed in other blog posts etc. If you need relational data, don't use firebase. Period. Where you need "anything bes

Most of the database concerns have been addressed in other blog posts etc. If you need relational data, don't use firebase. Period. Where you need "anything beside a simple key lookup" for the majority of your queries, go elsewhere. That's the first rule of Firebase. The second rule of Firebase is structure your data and populate it in a way that makes it simple to fetch with a simple key lookup.