PostgreSQL comes to Firebase
firebase.google.com
PostgreSQL comes to Firebase
1–5 of 5 posts
Re: PostgreSQL comes to Firebase
#2It's unclear if this has any of Firebase's signature real-time capabilities.
Certainly, Supabase is living proof that there's major demand for the ergonomics of Firebase with the established SQL ecosystem; however, there still seems to be a gap of a real-time, syncing, relational data store.
That's what we are still hard at work creating at Triplit[1] while others are making strides to add this functionality to Postgres directly[2].
[1] https://github.com/aspen-cloud/triplit [2] https://electric-sql.com/
Re: PostgreSQL comes to Firebase
#3That is huge news for the platform. Wow Firebase has had loads of announcements today seemingly.
As someone building primarily on Firebase in my spare time this is awesome. I use it as the backend and storage for my supercharged chrome extensions.
I think Firestore is okay for simple use cases such as payments and auth, but you definitely need SQL for heavy business logic
Re: PostgreSQL comes to Firebase
#4I need to know pricing for this because cloudsql is not cheap
Re: PostgreSQL comes to Firebase
#5It's unclear if this has any of Firebase's signature real-time capabilities. Certainly, Supabase is living proof that there's major demand for the ergonomics of Firebase with the established SQL ecosystem; however, there still seems to be a gap of a real-time, syncing, relational data store. That's what we are still hard at work creating at Triplit[1] while others are making strides to add this functionality to Postg…
Perfect reply from Supabase on Firebase's announcement: https://twitter.com/supabase/status/1790503399521230992
"does that make firebase a supabase alternative now??"