Firestore in Native mode documentation
Firestore in Native mode is a NoSQL document database built for automatic scaling, high
performance, and ease of application development. While the
Firestore interface has many of the same features as traditional
databases, as a NoSQL database it differs from them in the way it describes
relationships between data objects.
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Firestore: The NoSQL Serverless Database for the Application Developer
Firestore is a NoSQL serverless database with real-time notification
capability, and together with the Firebase ecosystem it greatly simplifies common app
development challenges while letting the application developer focus primarily on their
business logic and user experience. This paper presents the Firestore architecture.
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Serverless
Real-time notification
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