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Realtime Database
Build serverless apps by storing and syncing JSON data between your users in near-realtime, on or offline, with strong user-based security.
What’s new at Firebase Summit 2022
Kara Yu
Product Manager
October 18, 2022
App Check
Firebase Summit
+23 more...
Eliminating barriers in learning using the Realtime Database
Akua Prempeh
Developer Marketing
September 14, 2022
Firebase Stories
Realtime Database
Simplifying apparel purchasing using Firebase Realtime Database
Akua Prempeh
Developer Marketing
July 27, 2022
Firebase Stories
Realtime Database
Building Firebase Quickdraw Multiplayer
Tri Cao
Software Developer
Scott Shipman
Software Engineer
June 14, 2022
Games
Cloud Functions
+4 more...
What’s new at Firebase Summit 2021
Kristen Richards
Group Product Manager
November 10, 2021
App Check
Firebase Summit
+23 more...
Firebase Realtime Database Launches in Singapore
Jamie Niemasik
Product Manager
June 1, 2021
Realtime Database
Launch
Measuring Realtime Database performance with Firebase Performance Monitoring
Sam Stern
Developer Programs Engineer
March 12, 2021
Performance Monitoring
Realtime Database
+3 more...
A New Region and API for the Realtime Database
Jamie Niemasik
Product Manager
November 12, 2020
Realtime Database
Launch
Helpful product updates from Firebase Summit 2020
Francis Ma
Product Manager
October 27, 2020
Firebase Summit
Authentication
+18 more...
How the Google Doodle team used the Realtime Database to build a multiplayer game
Jacob Howcraft
Engineer, Doodle Team
January 28, 2020
Realtime Database
Cloud Functions
Case Study
Increasing the scaling limits of the Firebase Realtime Database
Jamie Niemasik
Product Manager
September 19, 2019
Realtime Database
Launch
What's new at Firebase Summit 2019
Francis Ma
Product Manager
September 26, 2019
Firebase Summit
App Distribution
+21 more...
Firebase Realtime Database Supports SSL Certificate Transparency
Jamie Niemasik
Product Manager
March 12, 2019
Realtime Database
Launch
How to Perform Large Deletes in the Realtime Database
Fred Zhang
Software Engineer
March 30, 2019
Realtime Database
Firebase CLI
What’s new at Firebase Summit 2018
Francis Ma
Product Manager
October 29, 2018
Firebase Summit
A/B Testing
+24 more...
In-App Messaging, Crashlytics integrations, and more! Oh my!
Francis Ma
Product Manager
August 16, 2018
Firebase Summit
Firestore
+24 more...
Alert Alert! The Firebase Realtime Database now supports Google Stackdriver Alerts!
Tyler Rockwood
Software Engineer
March 22, 2018
Realtime Database
Stackdriver
Launch
Introducing Query-based Security Rules
Tom Larkworthy
Engineer
January 26, 2018
Security Rules
Realtime Database
Launch
Using Android Architecture Components with Firebase Realtime Database (Part 3)
Doug Stevenson
Developer Advocate
December 22, 2017
Android
Realtime Database
Best Practices
Using Android Architecture Components with Firebase Realtime Database (Part 2)
Doug Stevenson
Developer Advocate
December 20, 2017
Android
Realtime Database
Best Practices
Using Android Architecture Components with Firebase Realtime Database (Part 1)
Doug Stevenson
Developer Advocate
December 15, 2017
Android
Realtime Database
Best Practices
Realtime Database Monitoring with Stackdriver
Tyler Rockwood
Software Engineer
December 21, 2017
Realtime Database
Stackdriver
Launch
Read and write your Realtime Database with the Firebase CLI
Doug Stevenson
Developer Advocate
December 5, 2017
Firebase CLI
Realtime Database
Easier scaling with multi-database support!
Kevin Jian
Software Engineer
November 20, 2017
Realtime Database
Launch
Cloud Firestore vs the Realtime Database: Which one do I use?
Todd Kerpelman
Developer Advocate
October 3, 2017
Firestore
Realtime Database
Best Practices
Introducing Conditional REST Requests
Casey Rogers
Software Engineer
July 31, 2017
Realtime Database
Launch
Cloud Functions Realtime Database Triggers Are Now More Efficient
Doug Stevenson
Developer Advocate
July 10, 2017
Cloud Functions
Realtime Database
Cloud Next
Accessing Database from the Python Admin SDK
Hiranya Jayathilaka
Software Engineer
July 6, 2017
Admin SDK
Realtime Database
Python
Increasing the Realtime Database concurrency limits
Tony Meng
Software Engineer
Alex Dufetel
Product Manager
April 7, 2017
Realtime Database
Launch
Profiling your Realtime Database Performance
Tyler Rockwood
Software Engineer
March 14, 2017
Realtime Database
Launch
App Quality
What happens to database listeners when security rules reject an update?
Doug Stevenson
Developer Advocate
November 22, 2016
Realtime Database
Security Rules
Android
Live from the Firebase Dev Summit in Berlin: Firebase, six months after I/O
Francis Ma
Product Manager
November 7, 2016
Firebase Summit
Android
+16 more...
Group Security in the Firebase Database
Todd Kerpelman
Developer Advocate
October 6, 2016
Security Rules
Realtime Database
Best Practices
Announcing Automated Daily Backups for the Firebase Database
Matthew Tse
Site Reliability Engineer
October 19, 2016
Realtime Database
Cloud Storage
Launch
Sending notifications between Android devices with Firebase Database and Cloud Messaging
Frank van Puffelen
Engineer
August 10, 2016
Cloud Messaging
Realtime Database
Android
Have you met the Realtime Database?
Frank van Puffelen
Engineer
July 8, 2016
Realtime Database
Behind the scenes: Firebass ARG Challenge
Karin Levi
Marketing Manager
June 6, 2016
Google I/O
Realtime Database
Games
The Firebase CLI: now with database commands
David East
Developer Advocate
November 6, 2015
Firebase CLI
Realtime Database
Launch
Client-side fan-out for data consistency
David East
Developer Advocate
October 7, 2015
Realtime Database
Best Practices
Introducing multi-location updates and more
Jacob Wenger
Core Developer
September 24, 2015
Realtime Database
Launch
Announcing Lower, Simpler Pricing
Max Henderson
Head of Growth
August 19, 2015
Realtime Database
Hosting
Introducing Firebase Queue
Chris Raynor
Core Developer
May 15, 2015
Realtime Database
Launch
Announcing Mobile Offline Support
Jonny Dimond
Core Developer
May 29, 2015
Realtime Database
Android
iOS
Private Backups for Firebase Data
Matt Tse
Operations Engineer
March 5, 2015
Realtime Database
BigQuery
Cloud Storage
The 2^120 Ways to Ensure Unique Identifiers
Michael Lehenbauer
Core Developer
February 11, 2015
Realtime Database
Best Practices
+4 more...
Firebase: Now with more querying!
Michael Lehenbauer
Core Developer
November 4, 2014
Launch
Realtime Database
Hacker News now has an API. It's Firebase
Ossama Alami
VP Developer Happiness
October 7, 2014
Case Study
Realtime Database
Launch
GeoFire 2.0
Jacob Wenger
Core Developer
June 23, 2014
GeoFire
Realtime Database
Handling Synchronized Arrays with Real-Time Firebase Data
Kato Richardson
Support Hacker
May 6, 2014
Realtime Database
Best Practices
Best Practices: Arrays in Firebase
Kato Richardson
Support Hacker
April 28, 2014
Realtime Database
Best Practices
Announcing Streaming for the Firebase REST API
Greg Soltis
Core Developer
March 24, 2014
Launch
Realtime Database
Queries, Part 2: Advanced Searches with Firebase, made Plug-and-Play Simple
Kato Richardson
Support Hacker
January 2, 2014
Best Practices
Realtime Database
Queries, Part 1: Common SQL Queries Converted for Firebase
Kato Richardson
Support Hacker
October 1, 2013
Best Practices
Realtime Database
New Feature: Improved String Validation in Security and Firebase Rules
Michael Lehenbauer
Core Developer
August 1, 2013
Launch
Realtime Database
Security Rules
How To Build a Presence System
Anant Narayanan
Dev Evangelist
June 17, 2013
Realtime Database
Best Practices
Denormalizing Your Data is Normal
Anant Narayanan
Dev Evangelist
April 12, 2013
Realtime Database
Best Practices
Announcing Firepad - Our Open Source Collaborative Text Editor
Michael Lehenbauer
Core Developer
April 9, 2013
Firepad
Launch
Realtime Database
Firebase Will Require SSL Starting February 4th
Andrew Lee
Co-Founder
January 21, 2013
Realtime Database
Firebase databases now support SSL
James Tamplin
Co-Founder
July 27, 2012
Realtime Database
Our Talk on Multiplayer Games at O'Reilly Fluent
Andrew Lee
Co-Founder
June 1, 2012
Realtime Database
Games
Developers, meet Firebase!
Michael Lehenbauer
Core Developer
April 12, 2012
Launch
Realtime Database