[benguild]

Yes and no… I mean it seems like Realm is more focused on an “offline-first” approach by contrast, and is adding this "database-as-a-service platform” for platform agnostic sync.

But, yeah… the usual “what happens if I run into a problem they can’t solve for me [in a timely manner]” or “what if I want to make hard-optimizations” or “what if they break something for me” or “what if they sunset it and I’m building an actual business on top of it” questions apply, of course.

In general, depending on what you’re doing you'd want to MINIMIZE your dependencies on services like this. Luckily, they’ve always seemed focused on database more so than “everything” like Parse was… so it’s only 1 thing, albeit perhaps the most critical one.