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Serverless Web Applications with React and Firebase
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Serverless Web Applications with React and Firebase

by Mayur Tanna, Harmeet Singh
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
284 pages
6h 43m
English
Packt Publishing
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Data model

Both databases are cloud-hosted, NoSQL databases, but the data model of both databases is different:

Realtime Database Cloud Firestore
  • Simple data is very easy to store.
  • Complex, hierarchical data is harder to organize at scale.
  • Simple data is easy to store in documents, which are very similar to JSON.
  • Complex and hierarchical data is easier to organize at scale, using subcollections within documents.
  • Requires less denormalization and data flattening.
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