What's the difference between Cloud Firestore and the Firebase Realtime Database?
Asked 07 September, 2021
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Google just released Cloud Firestore, their new Document Database for apps.

I have been reading the documentation but I don't see a lot of differences between Firestore and Firebase DB.

The main point is that Firestore uses documents and collections which allow the easy use of querying compared to Firebase, which is a traditional noSQL database with a JSON base.

I would like to know a bit more about their differences, or usages, or whether Firestore just came to replace Firebase DB?

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