Firebase was founded in 2011 and acquired by Google in 2014. It launched Cloud Firestore in 2017. Realtime Database is Firebase's original database that stores data in a JSON tree structure, while Cloud Firestore is newer and stores data in documents within collections. Both provide real-time updates and offline support on mobile and web. Cloud Firestore has more powerful querying, transactions, and security features but was still in beta, while Realtime Database is more reliable but has fewer features and scales data differently.

2. Firebase Timeline
Founded - 2011
Acquired by
Google - 2014
Cloud firestore
launch - 2017

3. What are Realtime database and Cloud Firestore?
Realtime database
is a mature low-
latency DB of
Firebase.
Cloud Firestore is
a new DB product
of Firebase still in
Beta stage.

4. Advantages of Firebase Databases
Easy Data
Migration
No Extra
Knowledge
required
Validation on
various data
types
One-stop
tool
Easier to use

5. Advantages of Firebase Databases
Free usage
Rich Code
libraries
JSON data
structure
Fast
development
Easy
streaming

6. Differences Between Realtime and Cloud Firestore

7. Realtime database
Cloud Firestore
Data Model
It stores data as
one large JSON
Tree
It stores data in
the form of
documents which
are organised in
collections

8. Realtime database
Cloud Firestore
Real-time and Offline support
It provides offline
support for only
the Android and
iOs mobile
clients
It provides offline
support for
Android, iOS and
web clients as
well

9. Realtime database
Cloud Firestore
Querying
It provides deep
queries and
limited sorting
and filtering
functionality
It indexes
queries. Filter
and sort functions
can be combined
in single query.

10. Realtime database
Cloud Firestore
Transactions
Write command
works as
individual
operation and
transactions use
callback in native
SDK.
It batches
operations and
completes them
automatically.

11. Realtime database
Cloud Firestore
Performance and Reliability
It is more reliable
because it a
mature and
tested database.
It isn’t as reliable
being new but it
has better
performance
even in beta
stage.

12. Realtime database
Cloud Firestore
Scalability
It shards data
over 100,000
concurrent
connections.
It scales data
automatically and
sharding doesn’t
happen.

13. Realtime database
Cloud Firestore
Security
Only Firebase
database rules
apply here.
It has more
powerful security
which uses IAM.

14. Realtime database
Cloud Firestore
Security
It charges higher
prices. Prices
are charged for
bandwidth and
storage.
It charges Lower
price. Prices are
charged for
Read, write and
delete
operations.

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