Google's Cloud Firestore (DBaaS) doesn't have a way to count records

#1

Post by squidc » Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 9:42 PM UTC

Why?

Re: Google's Cloud Firestore (DBaaS) doesn't have a way to count records

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Post by squidc » Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 9:42 PM UTC

Isn't this as basic of functionality you could ask for in a DBaaS product?

Re: Google's Cloud Firestore (DBaaS) doesn't have a way to count records

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Post by uberman » Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 10:03 PM UTC

While I completely empathize with you, that can be tricky in a fully distributed document store and to be fair, counting records in dynamodb is also a PITA.

Have you checked out using distributed counters to track the record count yourself? Read through the answers on this SO post. That might help.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46554091/firebase-firest...

Re: Google's Cloud Firestore (DBaaS) doesn't have a way to count records

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Post by squidc » Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 11:52 PM UTC

uberman wrote: post #3

While I completely empathize with you, that can be tricky in a fully distributed document store and to be fair, counting records in dynamodb is also a PITA. Have you checked out using distributed counters to track the record count yourself? Read through the answers on this SO post. That might help. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46554091/firebase-firest...

Fair point. Yea, this is the approach I ultimately settled on, but it surprised me to find out that such a simple operation as "count" isn't supported by firebase.