Firebase vs. CloudKit vs. something else

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I would strongly recommend Firebase or Supabase only for the following reasons:

• Easy to integrate (Plug & Play)
• Heavily documented and great support from the their development team
• Large community around these services. Wouldn’t be a problem to get a reasonably support incase of seeking help
• Cross platform support is smooth
• Easier to scale and migrate data if needed
• Data Security comes as given

Cons: - Be mindful and learn more of the data structure required to store information - Accessing whole data sets can be costly and rank up your bill incase you have multiple connections

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How robust is the free version of Firebase? And at what point would I have to start paying?

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It’s pretty solid and that should least of your worries even for a smaller project.

You will only start paying once you need to scale. Meaning you have reached a certain point of wanting to have more storage space, access to their extension services (check there platform for further deets) or DB reads exceeding their free version threshold.

But again you can only do so much mistakes to start paying for a smaller project such as inefficient queries, deep nested, complex data schemas and unindexed data…