Firebase is a Google-backed database optimized for synchronizing data to the cloud. It's a key player in the rush for distributed databases.

Another day, another misconfigured database leaking sensitive user information to the internet - but this time around, it's a big one - more than 900 websites using Google’s cloud database ...

Learn how to maintain user/data relationships with Firebase users and data from the Realtime database. I provide three different methods for commonly encountered scenarios.