The Live Database: Firestore’s Scalable and Consistent Realtime Queries
Summary: Presents Firestore’s scalable realtime-query architecture, combining strongly consistent snapshots with low-latency change notifications at million-QPS/petabyte scale. Covers seamless scaling, high availability, and SDK support for offline/disconnected clients. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Aug 28 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Matt Bell (Google)
- 2. David Gay (Google)
- 3. Per Jacobsson (Google)
- 4. Ram Kesavan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
- 5. Namita Lal (Google)
- 6. Xijiao Li (Google)
- 7. Hui Wu (Google)
BibTeX Citation
@article{bell_vldb26,
title = {{The Live Database: Firestore’s Scalable and Consistent Realtime Queries}},
author = {Bell, Matt and Gay, David and Jacobsson, Per and Kesavan, Ram and Lal, Namita and Li, Xijiao and Wu, Hui},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '26},
volume = {19},
number = {12},
pages = {4130--4142},
doi = {10.14778/3827998.3828021},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3827998.3828021},
year = {2026}
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| 25 | NiagaraCQ: A Scalable Continuous Query System for Internet Databases | 2000 | SIGMOD | 0.00053930011 |
| 218 | MillWheel: Fault-Tolerant Stream Processing at Internet Scale | 2013 | VLDB | 0.00024390324 |
| 369 | Continuous Queries over Append-Only Databases | 1992 | SIGMOD | 0.00019854467 |
| 2,919 | Monarch: Google’s Planet-Scale In-Memory Time Series Database | 2020 | VLDB | 7.8548399e-05 |
| 3,673 | DBSP: Automatic Incremental View Maintenance for Rich Query Languages | 2023 | VLDB | 7.1092596e-05 |
| 4,758 | SQLite: Past, Present, and Future | 2022 | VLDB | 6.4318211e-05 |
| 8,902 | InvaliDB: Scalable Push-Based Real-Time Queries on Top of Pull-Based Databases (Extended) | 2020 | VLDB | 5.2559789e-05 |
| 9,369 | Transparent Migration from Datastore to Firestore | 2024 | VLDB | 5.1868213e-05 |
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