Firebase - App success made simple by google

Firebase Developer Expert here and GoogleIO attendee. For all who are nervous about a similar Parse situation, fear not Google has literally incorporated Firebase to almost all the demos and talks at IO. They're very serious about Firebase!

Does the new version of Firebase support an infrastructure that contains graph database like Neo4j?

I've been always passively looking for a Parse alternative, but never gave a fair shot to Firebase. I think now is the high time to give this a spin. Just one doubt thou, Does Firebase provide a completely support for React Native like Parse?

I think the analytics positioning is interesting; previously google analytics was a catchall but it now looks like firebase analytics is being setup to compete more directly with mixpanel and amplitude etc with event driven focus and ability to send notification and cross this with crash reporting in one place

Will be a great compliment to @Fabric

Loving all the new features. Any plan on bringing some of the native only features (especially analytics) to JS + Hybrid Apps?

This is really interesting. This might be the future of app development.

Ever since Parse announced their plans to close, i've been researching alternatives to Parse. While Parse was good, I did find it quite slow (loading data to and from the app... don't blame my code 😄 Can anyone confirm if Firebase is faster?

I tried firebase out a while back. Very cool tool.

Firebase is cool, but there are some fundamental limitations that make it kind of hard to use, depending on the application. For example, it doesn't support simple querying, like searching all the items at a path for items that have names containing a search string (if you want to do this you have to use . Also doesn't come with geo queries (like finding items near a certain location), have to set up GeoFire (which isn't so bad, but it also has its limitations). Great and intriguing product, but you might find you have to overhaul an existing app just to get it to work with Firebase (e.g. if you were previously using Parse, like I was). Seems much more suitable for web apps than native mobile apps too. Wish they weren't discontinuing Parse, because that really had it all.