Cloud Firestore Data Modeling (Google I/O'19)

So, you're building your first app using Cloud Firestore, and these NoSQL databases are still new to you. How can you set up your data in Cloud Firestore so that you can a) Perform all the queries you want, while b) Keep everything running quickly, and c) Not spend too much money? Let's find out together by looking at some common use-cases and app types, and see how to implement these on Cloud Firestore.
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Speaker(s): Todd Kerpelman
T1165A event: Google I/O 2019; re_ty: Publish; product: Cloud - Databases - Firestore; fullname: Todd Kerpelman;

[@f4xxf4xx]

This guy is the best teacher. Solid presentation

[@tilakmadichettitheappdeveloper]

hell yeah dude ! This guy can also probably explain definite integration to 11yr olds

[@anonymosranger4759]

Agree!

[@SusanthCom]

True ❤️❤️❤️

[@DodaGarcia]

He's so funny and explains really well

[@marthasolis2281]

@@tilakmadichettitheappdeveloper no

[@guillempuche]

Data modeling rules (according to the presentation): 1. Documents have limits (size, field indexes, operations at the same time…) 2. You can only fetch documents (not specific fields for each document) 3. Billing is mostly based on the number of documents you touch 4. Queries search for indexed fields across a collection

[@valdineiferreira4814]

Data modeling rules (according to the presentation): 1. 16:05 Documents have limits (size, field indexes, operations at the same time…) 2. 18:29 You can only fetch documents (not specific fields for each document) 3. 20:44 Billing is mostly based on the number of documents you touch 4. 24:11 Queries search for indexed fields across a collection

[@the1yearexperiment]

This talk is so good. He begins with the exact "emotional" state where probably many are in, not wanting to mess things up for the future but not yet having the most extensive experience in the scale-up side of things. Discussing approaches and questions like denormalization or storing data in larger documents vs. sub-collections from this point of view is super helpful and something mostly not found in documentation

[@Firebase]

Thank you so much for your kind message of support 🙂

[@GarethHall]

This was the best IO talk I saw - you're an excellent presenter Todd!

[@bunnihilator]

Thanks, this is the 1st video everyone coming in to firebase should watch. Really a big thank you

[@postfixnotation9829]

Todd is an extremely good speaker! All of his Firebase Firestore videos are amazing. Thx!

[@KristianDamian]

The API analogy it's so clever, blow my mind and make me understand the NoSql idea immediately

[@donathmm3881]

This guy knows what he's doing ! Keep going 🤘🤘

[@dugtrioramen]

I've been looking at so many tutorials and videos, and this is easily the best one. He directly answers several questions I might have as soon as news things are brought up, and I finally feel like I have a solid understanding of how I should go about this

[@grzegorzgumieniak6460]

I'm really surprised how comfy is listening Todd and learning new stuff. This is exactly how good teacher should look! 😃

[@davidn7026]

I like that you explained the tradeoffs very clearly. It's a realtime db after all, and some basic features we expect don't work the way we think it they should. However, there should be guides that show us how to work around these basic features we can't have (reference, ORs, etc.)

[@404-HANDLE_NOT_FOUND]

A very helpful introduction for us long in the tooth SQL based types! Thank you.

[@marcelvarela9058]

This is a presentation that must be seen by every developer who want to use Firebase Cloud Firestore. It should be recommended by all tutorials and courses out there!

[@louisconstant8214]

As a developer with a SQL background now developing my first app with Firestore and NoSQL this was the exact talk I needed to watch. It's all clicking now.

[@broken_arrow1813]

Todd is great! I can listen to him present for a whole day. The audience doesn't look enthused though, even with GoT references!

[@soumitripattnaik]

Videos like this tells me that, the best things in the world are free of cost.

[@mohamedhussainsh7913]

very crisp talk and he touched most important use cases we may face when we implements firestore.

[@kevinjacyna7323]

Thank you for the crystal clear presentation!

[@vaishankur]

Considering using firebase despite everyone advising against it, because of this guy Todd :)

[@adarsh_hatwar]

Building a product is one thing but providing support and taking it to the next level is a whole new story. Firestore lacks basic features like support for IN/OR queries, automated backups etc. But people like Todd make things very simple and that is such a life saver as information is organized and comes from a trusted source. Thanks Todd for making this possible :)

[@DodaGarcia]

Todd is so fun to watch! He joked about it in the talk but he really *does* make a talk about database structures sound exciting.

[@locusm]

For explaining complex concepts Todd is the G.O.A.T.

[@beside5915]

This is my best lecture of the firestore

[@SamGerrans]

It's great to watch someone who is this good at his job!

[@2yaya123]

Amazing presentation! I feel like I really understand how Firebase data modeling works and the pros and cons of NoSQL databases after watching this video.

[@Firebase]

Great to hear!

[@LucasMDias]

I do care about my fish's birthday.

[@hunterheston]

@@ToddKerpelmanCorp how dare you, sir

[@asafmazon7]

But nobody does

[@IAmSamuelCharpentier]

I beleive it would be a hatchday

[@leeboyin945]

lol

[@jkojkojkojk]

It's been a year. I think he forgot his fish's birthday

[@verryondrums]

Awesome talk! One of my all time favorite presenters!

[@AkshaySood1]

Nice job Ted! Thank you for being such an awesome presenter/teacher 👍

[@82invisinle82]

Great talk, tells a lot about the possible scenarios and how we may handle with them.

[@tommytower47]

This was really good. The topic that was talked about last, was exactly the problem I was facing. Thank you for the solution!

[@DeependraSolanky]

Very good insights in such short time. Lot of things to unlearn for somebody coming from long experience in RDBMS world.

[@anandakumarsanthinathan4740]

Fantastic. Brilliant presentation. Covered everything one may want to know.

[@Firebase]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@ValAllenSamonte]

this is very helpful, thanks Todd!

[@Squad2ND]

Zombies in the Resident Evil games are more alive than this crowd, however I can tell you guys that I laughed, learned and I'm psyched up while watching this. Awesome job!

[@kaibe5241]

Todd was excellent. Helped me nerd out on Firestore :D

[@raymondmichael4987]

"If didn't like this, my name is (not Todd) and I was talking about android.." 🤣🤣🤣🤣 That made me laugh loudly. Great presentation and I picked a lot, it's like developing an app from scratch to end in 40.5 minutes. Greetings from Tanzania 🇹🇿

[@andrewerdle]

This really helped. Thank Todd.

[@JSANL]

Collection Group Queries! Finally🙏

[@troybailey175]

Extremely helpful, thank you!

[@AtomicCodeX]

This guy made a really funny Game of Thrones joke, and everyone in the audience had a bloody straight face

[@ImpactAICANADA]

Amazing presentation. I love how consumable this information is. This crowd isn't very lively!

[@arthurcebrian]

Best teacher ever!

[@fabrizziocht]

Fantastic explanation, thank you very much for share your knowledge

[@moomoomamoo]

Collection group querying! Wooooo~~

[@tempestalle]

Wooooo~

[@user-jd1vc5ul8p]

Thank you! This is awesome explanation!

[@paracha3]

Very nice session. Very comprehensive

[@sunjin222]

Loved it just what i needed to get started

[@VitorLucasOFICIAL]

Very good!! Thanks for the lesson Todd =D

[@glynvilesatago3441]

This guy really explains very well, cracks joke from time to time and the crowd just doesn't get it. :D :D :D

[@iamsurajgiri]

No, actually they get it. Its just the mic is centred to him

[@manupandher39]

its good to know that i am using firebase in correct manner 😎

[@antopolskiy]

Great talk and very helpful. Thank you

[@balajipadmanabhan4590]

Wonderful presentation . Hats Off .

[@Meknassih]

Exceptional content Todd, thanks a lot !

[@Firebase]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@darshans1190]

such a nice presentation. got to learn a lot of things !!

[@dylangrijalva2155]

Amazing explanation!

[@estebanmtz4315]

Such a great presentation

[@colekillian00]

Awesome explanation!

[@gofudgeyourselves9024]

Great job Todd

[@bakerkawesa]

Awesome lecture!

[@preetgandhi1233]

Very Great Explanation

[@diegocuevac]

Great explanation!

[@goat5249]

Great presentation, Reto Meier! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ for Android Studio

[@Firebase]

Glad you like it!

[@MaximilianBeck]

Great presentation and nice feature reveal 😀

[@ivammagalhaes7155]

Great! Thanks for sharing, Todd. :clap :clap

[@CodingYourLife]

Amazing.. thanks From 2021 :D

[@asafmazon7]

Love it! great talk

[@makemypetgamedevprocess6475]

Love this guy

[@himbary]

Excellent talk

[@thejohnfranco]

All my questions has fixed

[@ThePrimebrook]

That George RR Martin joke didn't get the love it deserved

[@dobleuxyz]

Amazing!

[@Firebase]

Thank you for the support, Gerardo!

[@user-ql5to3rh1o]

finally collection group queries 🔥🔥🔥

[@saminsharar3933]

We know we are nerds when we use 🔥🔥🔥 with collection group queries

[@UjjwalKumar-wg4wu]

awesome stuff

[@tareqalbeesh9149]

great video!

[@lvenir4702]

This s**t is 10 out of 10. Great work.

[@seunghwanjeong5348]

Awesome !!!!!!!!

[@TheChaitanyaDubey]

Great presentation

[@Firebase]

Thank you!

[@icoffeenz]

amazing video

[@eduardorabanal2803]

great video

[@manujabandara8487]

Great!.

[@CimesTwo]

🔥

[@lukecole5056]

Who would've thought Robin Williams would be the best tech presenter and teacher ever?

[@kirill4531]

Let's start :)

[@xXrostanXx]

I lov it!

[@VINNUSAURUS]

You guys should really make a video on how to structure data for a social media app :P

[@nfokl]

Totally agree! Working on one now.

[@jeet5401]

Firestore is not suitable for social media app, I guess.

[@raymondmichael4987]

Nikolai Fedorov, waiting to see it Greetings from Tanzania 🇹🇿

[@lazymacs2823]

yeah

[@lasoupedjour]

nice!

[@ooscarr]

I understood the references

[@zakariachahboun]

Thanks

[@praveenaanand6389]

Hey firebase It's firestore not firestone . See the thumbnail. Anyway i love you firebase 💗

[@eric-ampire]

Thanks for that, create video

[@LarsRyeJeppesen]

A backend would help filtering privat fields so the client only gets the fields that are *public" for a given document. Also, a backend could leverage Redis caching to minimize cost. So backend + Firestore is the best of both worlds imho

[@vijayhi3ic]

ONE CHICKEN TIKKA MASAAAAAAALA FOR THIS GUY RIGHT NOW!

[@amitlimbu5025]

undestood for the first time

[@marinesuper6441]

Best video to introduce firestore to us. Anyone has summary documents which recaps this content?

[@Firebase]

We're excited to hear you've enjoyed the video! You can head over to firebase.blog/posts/2022/05/whats-new-at-google-io for a summary of what's new at I/O! You can also continue to grow your skills by visiting our learning lab over at ✨ io.google/2022/learning/ ✨😄

[@GeireenG]

If you didn't like it I talked about Android Studio :D I didn't expect this to be that great!

[@arvidurs]

Is there a timeframe for native location queries a la GeoFire?

[@VuizTV]

❤🔥

[@piyushmajgawali1611]

great

[@GintsPolis]

Also it is worth to mention, that if Author changes name, all printed books remain his old name :)

[@sanithakv70]

❤️