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by arpit 2345 days ago
Firebase is a collection of services. This seems to be an alternative to the Firebase Realtime Database specifically
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This is not even true. Firebase Realtime Database supports offline-first while SapphireDB is just streaming results to the client, like RethinkDB or Meteor.
Offline-first is already a planned feature and only missing because of the lack of development capacity.
Which is sort of a legacy database they keep probably more for compatibility reasons. Firestore is the actual database used by most new apps.