The Firebase Realtime Database (RTDB) operates as a big JSON tree, so it's more efficient when it operates on a small dataset. Cloud Firestore is document-based and performs best with large blobs ...

Google, a tech giant that’s been growing its public cloud capabilities, said today that it’s acquired hot real-time backend database startup, Firebase.The startup’s technology will be ...

As Firebase co-founder James Tamplin told me, the Realtime Database (RTDB) was always the flagship product of the platform. The service is now in use by hundreds of thousands of developers.

Google today announced that it is buying San Francisco database stratus Firebase. Firebase, which will become part of the broader Google Cloud Platform, is an interesting approach towards mobile ...