Firebase has a few issues.
Take a look at this video and tell me this query and the required data denormalization is acceptable.
Take a look at this video and tell me this query and the required data denormalization is acceptable.
Something as simple as filtering by 2 or more values becomes ridiculously tedious.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26700924/query-based-on-m...
Also since Firebase doesn't allow more than one filtering field with orderByChild(...) I'm guessing Querybase will do all the work on the client. This is less than ideal since the data has to be downloaded first.
Here's a practical example of doing joins with Firebase (written by David East who is also the star of that video you linked): https://github.com/davideast/Querybase