[cyberferret]

I should probably clarify that I really liked Firebase, for all the reasons you mentioned above. It was really the schema restrictions, and (at the time) the lack of relational functionality that made me scrap it for a mobile app project that I was working on at the time.

This was very early days too, and I believe Firebase has improved considerably since then, and indeed I did a little "fun" project in it recently [0] (directly related to HN actually) and enjoyed the process.

I may still revisit it sometime, and see if it will suit another project.

[0] - https://hackernoon.com/tophn-a-fun-side-project-built-with-v...