Firebase DB
Today people need quick access to data, and they need faster data flow in mobile applications as well as web applications. It depicts that the real- time data management and transactions has become the newest way of communication in current days. Firebase which is owned by Google comes as a solution in handling this real time data on cloud. Since Firebase is backed by Google infrastructure, it can scale automatically for even the largest applications. It provides many real-time services such as authentication services, cloud messaging, Firebase hosting, Cloud storage and Machine learning for mobile developers, analytics and many more. Firebase provides a platform that allows application data synchronize across clients stored on firebase cloud. The eliminates the need of any relational database system on hosting server like MySQL and others.
How Firebase DB works?
Firebase real time database is a cloud hosted NoSQL database which makes it faster compared to relational database. It only allows operations that can perform quickly. Firebase provides secure and collaborative access to the database directly from client side. This facilitates the clients to store and sync data between uses in real time. It contains data which is persisted locally and even while offline it gives a responsive experience for the uses. It will synchronize the local data changes with the remote updates merging any conflicts occurred when it regains connection. You can serve millions of users without compromising on responsiveness.This database maintains security rule system which defined how your data should be structured and when data read from and written to. The developers can define who has access to which data and how they can access it by integrating with Firebase authentication.
What is Firebase Authentication ?
Most applications need to know the identity of the user which allows to securely save data in the cloud and provide personalized experience to the users. It supports authentication using passwords, phone numbers, popular federated identity providers like Google, Facebook and Twitter, and more.
First the authentication credentials are retrieved from the user to sign a user into the application. They are passed to the Firebase authentication SDK to verify and return a response to the client. This sign in could be used to access user’s profile information and control access to data stored in other firebase products.Authentication token can be used to verify identity for the backend services.
These numerous features supported by Firebase makes it one of the most popular cloud based real time databases. There will no extra money spent for the backend servers and quick display of data in the server. Faster Db as a result of NoSQL and the analytics of data can be considered as added advantage of Firebase. Most of all , rapid synchronization of data makes Firebase one of the most popular real time cloud base databases today.