I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned yet how slow Firebase can be. Especially updates via the REST API can take upwards of 1 second. And that is for a really

I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned yet how slow Firebase can be. Especially updates via the REST API can take upwards of 1 second. And that is for a really small database of a couple MB at most (and the updated value itself being a tiny string). I really don't know what they are doing, it seems they have made all the wrong decisions engineering-wise. I sincerely hope some team at Google is really busy right now rewriting everything.