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Wow.

Running a query takes down the db?

That sounds like a major problem. How can that happen?

Maybe returning incorrect or incomplete results due to sharding... But taking the db down? That's very... Unexpected.



Never used firebase but for what it's worth you can take down most databases with a bad enough query.


In the RDBMS world, you can take down pretty much any database by giving someone in accounting a copy of Crystal Reports :)


How, specifically? Something like a very complex query joining too many tables, or maybe a full Cartesian product of n > 2 tables?


You are right. But we usually have multiple ways to query our data in a DB. Not many ways to do that with the limited Firebase API.


Nope. A clear server crash with "Internal Server Error" and the DB being totally unavailable for 10-15 mins. Apparently it's 'normal'.




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