A Graph-Based Firebase
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- First, SQL has a schema. Schema is useful, but it make things less easy than Firebase. You can hack immediately in Firebase, but there’s upfront work with a schema. [19]
Second, there’s size. sql.js is about 400KBs gzipped. Yes this can be cached, but I just don’t see most apps adopting a library that adds this overhead. (View Highlight)
- Once we have permissions, we’ll be able to make sync more sophisticated. Right now Instant fetches the world. Shortly, Instant will fetch just the queries you need. This will start out simple, but will evolve towards incremental view maintenance. (View Highlight)
title: “A Graph-Based Firebase”
author: “Stepan Parunashvili”
url: ”https://stopa.io/post/296”
date: 2023-07-29
source: reader
tags: media/articles
A Graph-Based Firebase
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Highlights
- First, SQL has a schema. Schema is useful, but it make things less easy than Firebase. You can hack immediately in Firebase, but there’s upfront work with a schema. [19]
Second, there’s size. sql.js is about 400KBs gzipped. Yes this can be cached, but I just don’t see most apps adopting a library that adds this overhead. (View Highlight)
- Once we have permissions, we’ll be able to make sync more sophisticated. Right now Instant fetches the world. Shortly, Instant will fetch just the queries you need. This will start out simple, but will evolve towards incremental view maintenance. (View Highlight)
title: “A Graph-Based Firebase”
author: “Stepan Parunashvili”
url: ”https://stopa.io/post/296”
date: 2023-12-19
source: reader
tags: media/articles
A Graph-Based Firebase
Metadata
Highlights
- First, SQL has a schema. Schema is useful, but it make things less easy than Firebase. You can hack immediately in Firebase, but there’s upfront work with a schema. [19]
Second, there’s size. sql.js is about 400KBs gzipped. Yes this can be cached, but I just don’t see most apps adopting a library that adds this overhead. (View Highlight)
- Once we have permissions, we’ll be able to make sync more sophisticated. Right now Instant fetches the world. Shortly, Instant will fetch just the queries you need. This will start out simple, but will evolve towards incremental view maintenance. (View Highlight)