Firebase Realtime Database
Firebase's original cloud database: one JSON tree synced to every connected client in real time. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- database engine
- Developer
- Created by
- James Tamplin, Andrew Lee
- First release
- 2012
- License
- Proprietary
- Open source
- No
- Pricing
- Free with paid plans
- Website
- https://firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database
- Written in
- —
- Data model
- Document
- Storage layout
- Document
- Workload
- Transactions (OLTP)
- Analytics architecture
- Not an analytics platform
- Query language
- Firebase SDKs, REST API
- ACID transactions
- No
- Schema
- Flexible
- Deployment
- Managed cloud
- Scaling
- Sharding
- Create, read, update, delete
- Create: fast (Writes sync to clients in real time); Read: moderate (Whole subtrees load, queries are limited); Update: fast (Multi-path updates in one call); Delete: fast (Removing a node removes its subtree)