Is firestore slower than realtime database?

While Cloud Firestore has more advanced querying capabilities, better reliability, and scales better than the Firebase Realtime Database, the Realtime Database generally has lower latency if you’re in North America . It’s usually not by much, and in something like a chat app, I doubt you would notice the difference.

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Are Firebase projects free?

We offer a no-cost tier for all of these features . Firebase also has many no-cost products: Analytics, Cloud Messaging, the Notifications composer, Remote Config, App Indexing, Dynamic Links, and Crash Reporting. You can use an unlimited amount of any of these products in all plans, including our no-cost Spark plan.

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What is real-time database?

A real-time database is a database system which uses real-time processing to handle workloads whose state is constantly changing . This differs from traditional databases containing persistent data, mostly unaffected by time. For example, a stock market changes very rapidly and is dynamic.

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Is MySQL a real-time database?

MySQL: Battle of the Databases. The key differences between Firebase and MySQL: Architecture: Firebase is a NoSQL database that stores and syncs data in real-time (a real-time document store); MySQL is an open-source relational database management system based on the domain-specific language SQL .

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