PostgreSQL comes to Firebase (opens in new tab)

It's unclear if this has any of Firebase's signature real-time capabilities.

Certainly, Supabase is living proof that there's major demand for the ergonomics of Firebase with the established SQL ecosystem; however, there still seems to be a gap of a real-time, syncing, relational data store.

That's what we are still hard at work creating at Triplit[1] while others are making strides to add this functionality to Postgres directly[2].

[1] https://github.com/aspen-cloud/triplit [2] https://electric-sql.com/

That is huge news for the platform. Wow Firebase has had loads of announcements today seemingly.

As someone building primarily on Firebase in my spare time this is awesome. I use it as the backend and storage for my supercharged chrome extensions.

I think Firestore is okay for simple use cases such as payments and auth, but you definitely need SQL for heavy business logic

I need to know pricing for this because cloudsql is not cheap