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Why are people persisting to Firebase? Is is it still solving a pain point?

• tehbeard 7y ago
  Mobile sync, if I understand correctly.
  • amelius 7y ago
    There's no open source equivalent? Lock-in could be the reason they're still using it.
    • tehbeard 7y ago
      The closest I can think of that I've used is CouchDB.. But it's not a turnkey solution, particularly with how ACL works (read granularity is at the database level)
    • mutant 7y ago
      GunDB is an opensource alternative
• lima 7y ago
  Realtime data access.
• arcturus17 7y ago
  Saves me even more time than an Express + Mongo setup.