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by rollulus 552 days ago
Just curious. They have Google listed as user. Why would a company like that be interested given that they’ve already any world class db in-house along with the expertise?
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Yeah, I'm gonna need a citation on Google's usage of ElectricSQL, considering that the link points to Firebase Data Connect.
Ok, so PGLite is used in the Firebase Data Connect's emulator: a test utility, not even the client library.

It's a bit disingenuous to lump it in the same sentence and try to mislead user that Google's adopting Electric.

From https://firebase.google.com/docs/data-connect/data-connect-e...:

> Firebase Data Connect provides you with a local emulator for end-to-end prototyping as well as continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) flows

Developers at Google have chosen PGLite for those qualities so that users of Firebase Data Connect had better CI/CD workflows. It wouldn't be fair to say this is an insignificant use case.

hey want to get more developers on their platform and some ctos (like me) try to avoid vendor lockin. for that reason I avoid firebase. I certainly wouldn't mind setting one of these up on gcp with google's postgres offerings though