Firebase and Supabase: Key differences you need to know


 

The tools classified as “Realtime Backend / API“, or tools that can rapidly process an API call and in this case, store data, include Firebase and Supabase. Firebase is a NoSQL database, while Supabase is a relational database. The Firestore database, which lets you store “documents,” is the core of Firebase. These are collections of key-value pairs where different sub-value documents may be present.

Since two documents in a collection don’t have to share the same structure, document-based storage is ideal for unstructured data. On the other hand, Supabase offers a relational database management system called PostgreSQL rather than being