Google Firebase Realtime Database

What do you like best?

Google Firebase Realtime Database is very fast when it comes to reading and writing data making it ideal for apps that require real time data updates such as instant messaging apps. The other upside is that it can automatically scale to match the increased traffic that the app generates. Realtime Database also comes with standard google tutorials to help developers get started and this is really cool. In addition, Realtime Database comes with automatic offline capabilities and it will automatically sync once the device has network. This greatly reduces the amount of work required to build an offline app.

What do you dislike?

One downside I encountered is that since it is a No-SQL database, the security configurations require getting used to. In addition, data storage needs proper planning before implementing as recovering this data for reporting might be a bit complex depending on the kind of app you are building

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Realtime Database is great for prototyping as you can build apps that store and sync data in a few hours. In addition, you do not have to worry about database capacity as it automatically scales to meet increased traffic.