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Google's Cloud Firestore (DBaaS) doesn't have a way to count records
3 points by squidc 2499 days ago
Why?
2 comments

While I completely empathize with you, that can be tricky in a fully distributed document store and to be fair, counting records in dynamodb is also a PITA.

Have you checked out using distributed counters to track the record count yourself? Read through the answers on this SO post. That might help.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46554091/firebase-firest...

Fair point. Yea, this is the approach I ultimately settled on, but it surprised me to find out that such a simple operation as "count" isn't supported by firebase.
Isn't this as basic of functionality you could ask for in a DBaaS product?