Firestore has already created a great buzz in the developer community, and adjectives such as adaptable, versatile, and scalable are already a brilliant way of describing Firestore. Though it is still in a beta state, Firestore has proven a lot and developers have started to use this tool in production builds.
So, what makes Firestore stand out compared to Realtime Database? Well, Firestore is a document database, whereas Realtime Database is NoSQL. Firestore offers better querying and more structured data. Realtime Database is a JSON hashmap tree. Firestore is more structured and all user data consists of documents (which are basically key-value pairs) and collections (list of documents). Documents can point to a subcollection that holds other documents. Designed to scale, Firestore offers better scaling than Realtime Database. Firestore will perform faster, even with large datasets. Easier manual fetching of data similar to real-time database, Firestore offers to fetch...