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Re:Firebase expands to become a unified app platform by hiphipjorge on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @05:09PM (#11725986)
> by doing things like constantly polling the backend

RethinkDB doesn't require polling. It's like their #1 feature and differentiator from other non-sql databases.

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Re:Firebase expands to become a unified app platform by EGreg on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @07:57PM (#11726993)
What do they do?

We use websockets in our realtime platform.

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Re:Firebase expands to become a unified app platform by coffeemug on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @08:37PM (#11727141)
The Horizon client uses websockets to connect to the Horizon server. The Horizon server uses RethinkDB's protocol[1] to connect to the database.

[1] http://rethinkdb.com/docs/writing-drivers/

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Re:Firebase expands to become a unified app platform by guelo on Thursday May 19, 2016 @12:00AM (#11727861)
Websockets cannot be as efficient as native network management code.
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Re:Firebase expands to become a unified app platform by jkarneges on Thursday May 19, 2016 @01:00AM (#11728092)
What does this even mean? WebSockets can be used natively. In fact the Firebase client uses WebSockets, same as Horizon.
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Re:Firebase expands to become a unified app platform by guelo on Thursday May 19, 2016 @01:55AM (#11728301)
Sorry I was confused about terms, what I was thinking of was Javascript vs native. Native code can do more than a browser sandboxed client can.
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