Introduction to Cloud Firestore

Whether a relational or non-relational database is needed depends on your project use cases. It is also common to use both for a given project.

The focus in this course is on a non-relational document database called Cloud Firestore, which is part of the overall Firebase development platform.

Cloud Firestore

"A NoSQL document database that lets you easily store, sync, and query data for your mobile and web apps - at a global scale."

Besides availability, performance, and scalability, flexibility is also important. Firestore provides collections to group documents - and nested collections for further granularity where necessary.

It comes with two more very powerful features: database triggers and data synchronization between devices, even when they are offline. ...