What open source components does Cloud Firestore use?
Can you point towards papers that describe the algorithms and data structures that Firestore uses? What infrastructure does it rely on to perform reliably?
Can you point towards papers that describe the algorithms and data structures that Firestore uses? What infrastructure does it rely on to perform reliably?
The SDKs are all open source and make use of other open source components:
* Android: https://github.com/firebase/firebase-android-sdk/tree/master/firebase-firestore
* iOS: https://github.com/firebase/firebase-ios-sdk/tree/master/Firestore
* Web: https://github.com/firebase/firebase-js-sdk/tree/master/packages/firestore
* .NET: https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-dotnet/tree/maste...
* Go: https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/tree/master/fi...
* Java: https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-java/tree/master/...
* Node.js: https://github.com/googleapis/nodejs-firestore
* PHP: https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-php-firestore
* Python: https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/tree/maste...
* Ruby: https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-ruby/tree/master/...
For example, Cloud Firestore uses TrueTime to provide similarly strong consistency guarantees to Cloud Spanner (see https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/true-time-external-con...)
I'm not aware of any whitepapers describing the listen feature that provides real-time updates.