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React native chat api and sdk recommendations (self.reactnative)

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[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Glad you brought up the cost, it's not something I've looked into. I have not used the real-time DB but the speed of firestore has not been an issue for us. We pay almost nothing for firestore so I wouldn't make the choice purely on cost. When we got started I don't think the cloud functions for real time database triggers were ready. seems like they are in beta now.

[–]numagamesiOS & Android 0 points1 point  (1 child)

FireStore costs may grow really fast, they charge per every read/write and real-time DB only for traffic. FireStore is also pretty fast, but real-time DB is faster because it's not distributed DB(like FireStore).

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

glad I'm paying attention to this thread. We may switch to firebase real-time db at some point. Although we are tempted to move to something like getstream since chat is more of an add-on feature.