[uberman]

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...

[squidc]

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.