Firebase Realtime DB vs Firestore 🔥

Full-Stack Firebase:

[Omeir]

Finally a precise video. Now I know the difference between these two.

[ereh]

First video that really explains the differences, thanks!

[mohamethseck]

A video that finally tells me the difference. Thank you!

[Tom-gpoy]

I know this video is 2 years old as of this writing, but if anyone is deciding between these two now, I just wanted to add...don't be oversold by Google's push of Firestore, it might not be what you need. Persistent presence (detecting who is online/offline at any given moment), for instance, is easier done with RTDB. You can have RTDB do it and connect that to Firestore results with cloud functions, but that's an added layer of complexity if you don't need it. If you're building a multiplayer game that depends on near real-time syncing of player data, RTDB seems to handle most things better. Queries of a million+ records for Firestore might be faster, but be aware that if you're just reading/writing a few documents in a smaller collection, the latency is always higher for Firestore than RTDB. For instance, my app has to read a few small docs and write a handful of variables for each user at certain points in the game. With Firestore, reading the docs for one user can take up to a few thousand miliseconds, even though it barely has to search or organize data on the server. In RTDB, it's done in a few hundred miliseconds or less. I'm not searching through millions of documents, so for me RTDB proved to be a better choice.

[frankspin]

Huge improvement! Really digging the new video setup!

[iguy]

If you start with Realtime Database (Firebase) for your startup app, will it be posible to easily switch to Firestore if Needed later when the app grows?

[idlenoodle]

This was super useful, just what i was looking for.

[edwinG]

So firestore is more for handling and retrieving a lot of documents and rtdb is more for like a chat app since it only needs to focus on small amounts of data at a time?

[edmundodot]

Left programming for 5 years only to come back and remember exactly why I left in the first place: Needlessly overcomplicated, convoluted and unorganized products and documentation that make your life a never ending nightmare.

[sharrontipple-johnson]

The video content is so excellent, congratulations

[pastuh]

Decided to create small tournament app, but looks like need first to think how to structure everything..
Not expected this :X

[tomhollins]

When you make your videos, volume level the intro and exit with the video itself. It should only take 2 tries to get it close. But like almost every Youtube video, the intro are massively loud compared to the speaker.
Good content in this video. Hope you have a successful video series.

[mehmetasar]

Go on Chris.. Your are my guidance to learn firebase how build web structure. Thanks a lot.

[tangiblemark]

What would you use if you're building a messenger/chatting app? is firestore too slow to use as realtime chatting?

[alexkimoto]

A full stack Chris Esplin Firebase course in the making - great news! Do you already know if it will be costing in the business training material or the freelance developer range (Wes Bos course style)?

[gokuyoutub]

Hello Chris, very nice video .

I Have a completely different question. Can i use firestore for my own app (which i wont publish and just use for myself ) for free forever ? or will my test-firestore db deleted after a period of time ? if i ever use an app commercially, am i allowed to use firestore free plan for that too ?
ok thats 3 questions lol

[alexpov]

long time no see ... great news, thanks!

[midhunrajr]

We are creating a map-related application, which reads data from the DB. The expected number of reads per user is about 20-50 per week. And, each read may need to access 100s of 'places' data. Which database you think is cost beneficient (considering the app has high userbase)?

[nyambe]

Awesome explanation!! believe it or not it is not easy to find this info. Now, can you explain if there is a firestore alternative in amazon? which is better? lol, sorry ask

[TheGrafox]

Welcome back ... We need more videos on angular fire2 also