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Re:How Algolia Built Their Realtime Search as a Service by exclusiv on Thursday May 03, 2018 @03:56AM (#16984148)
Yeah it's solid and easy to setup by using cloud functions on firestore events.

Querying on Firestore is really limited though and quite surprising really. They even have geopoint data types but you can't query on them.

I'm sure they'll add a lot more soon but Algolia has been great for filling in those gaps and adding robust search.

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Re:How Algolia Built Their Realtime Search as a Service by tootie on Thursday May 03, 2018 @09:37AM (#16985881)
Straying OT, but I find Google Cloud's array of database options to be hopelessly confusing. Particularly with the Fire* offerings that are all really cool, but seemingly limited to mobile use cases.
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