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tlrobinson on April 12, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Firebase, a scalable real-time backend

Could Firebase be used as a database for Meteor? (i.e. replacing Mongo)

tzm on April 12, 2012 | [–]

yes. There is a node.js library for Firebase that uses websockets as a transport layer.

jamest on April 12, 2012 | [–]

Absolutely

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