[tlarkworthy]

At Firebase it was sometimes called the client-database-server architecture. The pattern was documented in 2013 [1]

If you use Firebase as an ephemeral message bus it's a great pattern. It has problems if you use it like a traditional database because migrations are very tricky. DBs that support views (or GraphQL) can make migrations much easier

[1] https://firebase.googleblog.com/2013/03/where-does-firebase-...