Is Firebase just a database?

The Firebase Realtime Database is a cloud-hosted NoSQL database that lets you store and sync data between your users in realtime . NEW: Cloud Firestore enables you to store, sync and query app data at global scale.

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Firebase is a real-time object store. It is not a SQL database and is not intended to be a replacement for one. It completely lacks mechanisms such as JOINs, WHERE query filters, foreign keys, and other tools relational databases all provide.

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