The best Firebase alternative for most teams is Supabase, because it swaps Firestore's per-read billing for Postgres and a flat plan. But Firebase itself is cheap for tidy apps. In our model, a
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Choose SQL when your data has clear relationships and you need joins, transactions and a fixed shape. Choose NoSQL when your data is document-shaped, key-based or enormous and you read it by one key
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There are eight database types worth knowing in 2026: relational, document, key-value, wide-column, time-series, graph, search and vector. Each stores data in a different shape and is fast at a
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Pick PostgreSQL if your data has relationships you query across, and pick MongoDB if your data is a set of self-contained documents that change shape often. The old rule that "PostgreSQL cannot do
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