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...
