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Somebody really needs to write an open source Firebase clone. There's a gaping void in the market for something that doesn't lock users in and supports on-prem
by tristanz 12y ago
Somebody really needs to write an open source Firebase clone. There's a gaping void in the market for something that doesn't lock users in and supports on-premise installs. This could be a pure open source project or open source business like MongoDB.
It doesn't need to be exactly Firebase. But Firebase sets a high bar. To my knowledge, there is no production-grade datastore that supports realtime sync, range queries, and eventual consistency in the face of intermittent connections.
Email tristan@sense.io if interested trial customer / sponsor.
- taion 12y agoIt's not a data store, but doesn't Meteor's functionality set get you pretty close to the same thing? You can essentially build the same type of behaviors on top of Meteor as you can with Firebase.
- whatts 12y agoIndependently, without seeing this thread, I had already posted this today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8563103 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8563103 I would definitely participate as a contributer, if it's open-source. I'll email you. By the way, I have already tried Meteor which relies on MongoDB. However, Firebase allows you to read and write data at any arbitrary location. MongoDB, on the contrary, expects you to have some basic "collections" and write complete documents in there. Anything that is on a deeper level inside is called "embedded document" and the support for common operations is much worse.
- contingencies 12y agoI wonder what percentage of real world deployments could be resolved through judicious use of rsync and possibly filesystem-level snapshots in combination with sqlite? I suspect a great many, depending upon ACID requirements and complexity of write loads.