Can someone guide me what are pros and cons of using/not using both. Is it true that airtable slows things down while firebase is fast. Thanks in advance

Firebase is currently free but will not be so for a long time. Google already announced it. In the other hand, Airtable is free with a limit of 1,200 records. Airtable takes the table structure of rows and columns but Firebase is an object oriented structure following JSON style so you access thing…

Wow, thanks for detailed answer, I have many images that I need to store. So which one should I use?

Both provides abilities to store images. Having said that, both recommend saving your images somewhere and store the URL in the DB

So mediaDB - images to be stored and airtable - image URLs to be stored? OK?

In Airtable, you can set the field type as attachment which will allow any kind of files to be saved but from experience, I got problems trying to retrieve it in Thunkable. Of course this may change in the near future and the Thunkable team are working in updating the platform all the time. As of k…

@muneer I’m interested in hearing more about your experience with Airtable. Can you expand on what you mean by the connection to Airtable is not very stable and the connection my reset with updates? Obviously we want the experience to be smooth and easy for our users so if that isn’t the case please…

Yes @Steven , I noticed that a lot with Airtable and Google Sheets in November and December when the team are launching the enhanced Legacy UI (move invisible components to block screen) before the Drag & Drop UI. I stopped using it for that and also because Thunkable does not provide a way to use th…

airtable is better but it can have 1500 cell i think

The free version is up to 1200 rows only in all tables. Which means if you have 3 tables each has 400 rows then you have to start paying to add more data.

@muneer , do you have a link for this? I couldn’t find that announcement. [image] muneer: Firebase is currently free but will not be so for a long time. Google already announced it.

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muneer January 31, 2021, 10:35am 14

Dear @Steven

Check this as a sample of the disconnection problem of Airtable

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