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by rkangel 2702 days ago
All other things being equal, I wouldn't go NoSQL over Postgres.

What makes Firestore interesting to me (not used it in production) is that you can avoid the need for a backend completely. Your normal architecture is Client <-REST-> Backend <-> DB. You can avoid all the deployment and development in the backend by doing the work in the client.