Meteor.js vs Firebase

[dandv]

Manav Sehgal posted on Quora a great comparison between Meteor and Firebase.

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does anyone have a good comparison of storing/querying with firebase for somebody who is coming from mongodb?

Surprisingly, I wasn’t able to find a comparison between MongoDB and Firebase Realtime Database querying, or a “guide for migrating from MongoDB to Firebase”, even though Firebase was built on top of MongoDB.

The Firebase querying API looks quite different from MongoDB’s:

• ref.child() instead of find()
• ref.set() instead of db.collection.update()
• ref.orderBy...() instead of sort()
• pagination is done with startAt and endAt

firebase.database has no support for geospatial queries, regular expressions, aggregations, map-reduce, text search (you need to use Elastic Search for that), capped collections, or even arrays.