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I’ve been working with NoSQL databases almost since the beginning of my developer career. For the most part, I was busy making apps for iOS, many of which required a few server-side utilities like user accounts or a simple data storage. As I certainly wasn’t capable of developing a full blown backend service back then, I resolved to Firebase as often as possible.

That’s how I met your mother a NoSQL Database. At that time, Firebase was mostly about their Realtime Database, which had a structure similar to a big JSON file. It had no schema, no data types, no…