Does firebase storage have a built-in capability to automatically persist data offline like firestore, I can't find such feature in documentation.
It does not. You would have to implement that yourself, or find a some sort of library that does what you want.
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is any way to Export firebase real-time database collection to bigquery?
firestore-bigquery-export#0.1.13 extension option is available for the firestore database.
There is no built-in or pre-built extension that I know of to provide a similar export to BigQuery from the Firebase Realtime Database. It sounds like a reasonable feature request though, so I recommend filing it here.
In the meantime, keep in mind that all Firebase Extensions are open-source, so you can take the code for the firestore-bigquery-export extension and use that to either create your own extension for RTDB, or otherwise set up an export.
I can't see much online as to whether it's possible to upload data to Cloud Firestore via Windows Powershell, I know you are able to upload data to the Realtime Database fairly easily, but is this possible for Cloud Firestore?
I need to be able to authenticate a user for upload to follow the database rules and upload rather than using the service account key?
Thanks for any answers or advice you may be able to provide me with.
If you are asking if there is a similar mechanism as the Firebase CLI for reading and writing data to Firestore as there is with Realtime Database, the answer is no, there is no provided tool for that. It currently only provides a mechanism to delete data.
You are certainly free to write your own program using the JavaScript client libraries, which have limited support for Firebase Auth and Firestore on nodejs. You can then invoke your program on the command line. You could also use the REST APIs for both products to write something in any language you want.
I would like to provide structure to the firebase data tables. Hence, I want to create a schema (similar to mongoose) based on which the entries to the database can be written. How can this be achieved?
There are two libraries then enable creating schema for firebase:
Firebase Schema
Bolt
Bolt is a library developed by firebase itself
To validate the structure of data that can be written to the Firebase Realtime Database, you use the .validate clause in its server-side security rules. Instead of repeating them here, I'll refer you to its documentation: https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/security/
I'm wondering how to store this kind of data structure into Firebase
What i have learned so far from Firebase Docs was that if we want to store JSON, we could use Firebase Realtime Database. But, if we want to store Images/Video/Files, we could use Firebase Storage.
The issue is i want to store both kind of data (string, and image). Any idea how can i achieve this ?
Put your files in Cloud Storage for Firebase, then store a URL or path to the file in Realtime Database. It's strongly recommended not to store large amounts of binary data in Realtime Database - that's simply not what it's good for.
Firebase's documentation has the following paragraph:
Using Cloud Firestore and Realtime Database: You can use both databases within the same Firebase app or project. Both NoSQL databases can store the same types of data and the client libraries work in a similar manner. Keep in mind the differences outlined above if you decide to use both databases in your app.
I can't find any documentation on how to add a Cloud Firestore to an existing project with a Realtime Database, though. I will ultimately upgrade to Cloud Firestore, but would like some time to experiment and learn before I convert the production database.
Does anybody know how to use both databases in the same Firebase project?
When you go to your project in the console and choose the Database product, you should see something like this the first time:
This is a selector that lets you choose to see either Realtime Database or Firestore in your project. You can switch between the two with this selector.
The first time you select Cloud Firestore, it will ask you to configure things. Start in "test mode" to set things up for full read and write without authentication to get started quickly, but of course your should always have rules set up in production.
After you set up Firestore, you should be able to use both client SDKs to access both databases independently.