M1L4 : The Firestore Database

Lesson 4 of Module 1 from the CWC+ iOS Dabatase course gets our “hands dirty” looking into how Firestore structures its data.

I very much come from a background of MySQL / MariaDB, but I recall quite clearly a time from before I’d even heard of “SQL”. Firestore is NoSQL, which I have read up on in the past but haven’t had much dealing with. Hopefully I won’t be too crippled by my years of SQL indoctrination.

In this lesson, Micah guides us through setting up collections / documents / sub-collections with sample key-value pairs through the Firebase web interface.