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Published inDec 2023
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Abirami Sukumaran
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Abirami Sukumaran

Abirami Sukumaran is a lead developer advocate at Google, focusing on databases and data to AI journey with Google Cloud. She has over 17 years of experience in data management, data governance, and analytics across several industries in various roles from engineering to leadership, and has 3 patents filed in the data area. She believes in driving social and business impact with technology. She is also an international keynote, tech panel, and motivational speaker, including key events like Google I/O, Cloud NEXT, MLDS, GDS, Huddle Global, India Startup Festival, Women Developers Academy, and so on. She founded Code Vipassana, an award-winning, non-profit, tech-enablement program powered by Google and she runs with the support of Google Developer Communities GDG Cloud Kochi, Chennai, Mumbai, and a few developer leads. She is pursuing her doctoral research in business administration with artificial intelligence, is a certified Yoga instructor, practitioner, and an Indian above everything else.
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Firestore and its features

Firestore is a serverless document database that scales easily and flexibly to meet any growing demand with no maintenance. In the Firestore database, data is stored as documents that are organized into collections. Documents contain subcollections, nested objects, and complex objects such as lists. If you don’t start by creating a collection or document for your use case, Firestore automatically creates it as needed. The following are some key features that stand out to me in using Firestore as a document database:

  • Firestore, being fully managed and serverless, allows developers to focus fully on application development and effortlessly scale up and down without any maintenance or downtime.
  • Since it supports live sync and offline mode, it is ideal for mobile and web applications in several real-time use cases and remote low-accessibility situations.
  • The powerful query engine allows you to run ACID transactions on document data.
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Abirami Sukumaran

Abirami Sukumaran is a lead developer advocate at Google, focusing on databases and data to AI journey with Google Cloud. She has over 17 years of experience in data management, data governance, and analytics across several industries in various roles from engineering to leadership, and has 3 patents filed in the data area. She believes in driving social and business impact with technology. She is also an international keynote, tech panel, and motivational speaker, including key events like Google I/O, Cloud NEXT, MLDS, GDS, Huddle Global, India Startup Festival, Women Developers Academy, and so on. She founded Code Vipassana, an award-winning, non-profit, tech-enablement program powered by Google and she runs with the support of Google Developer Communities GDG Cloud Kochi, Chennai, Mumbai, and a few developer leads. She is pursuing her doctoral research in business administration with artificial intelligence, is a certified Yoga instructor, practitioner, and an Indian above everything else.
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