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Published inNov 2017

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Houssem Yahiaoui

Firebase Cloud FireStore

Over the past 6 years, Firebase's products evolved and with Google integration, Firebase powered by Google simply became more powerful than it had been before. Such power meant some limitations on current products, for instance, the beloved Realtime Database that hypothetically knew some scalability. Developers, a lot of times, found it confusing as to how they should use it to simply store data.

Firebase Cloud FireStore, powered by Google's powerful database infrastructure, provided a solution by providing scalability, flexibility, and data management. Here are its main power points and, its differences from the earlier model:

Compared to the old Realtime Database, when it comes to the look and feel of data schemas, Cloud FireStore is more organized and structured than the old model. This difference facilitates the way developers think and...

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Houssem Yahiaoui

Houssem Yahiaoui is a Telerik Developer Expert, Google Developer Group Lead, Meetup organizer, Conference Speaker, and Technical blogger among a few things. He has been a developer since the age of 14 and Firebase lover since day one. He's also a passionate JavaScript developer and strongly believes that JavaScript should fix the World's hanger problem.
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