Firebase database upload limit

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Jagdeep Singh

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Aug 5, 2016, 11:43:12 AM8/5/16
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Does any one know what is the maximum size of file that firebase allow to upload, i have 135MB of data that i am trying to upload and on each attempt its not working

Jacob Wenger

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Aug 5, 2016, 12:55:02 PM8/5/16
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Firebase read / write limits are documented here (unfortunately it doesn't look like this chart has made it onto our new docs and it might be slightly out of date; I logged a bug to fix this).

TL;DR is that write limit from the client SDKs is 32 MB (at least from the web / Node.js SDK; it might still be 16 MB on the mobile clients) and write limit from the REST API is 256 MB.

So, you should either try to upload using the REST API or break up your data and upload it in smaller individual pieces.

Cheers,
Jacob

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Does any one know what is the maximum size of file that firebase allow to upload, i have 135MB of data that i am trying to upload and on each attempt its not working

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Jagdeep Singh

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Aug 5, 2016, 1:10:46 PM8/5/16
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Thanks for info, but how can i upload in individual pieces? each time i upload json file it deletes previous one not appending


On Friday, August 5, 2016 at 12:55:02 PM UTC-4, Jacob Wenger wrote:
Firebase read / write limits are documented here (unfortunately it doesn't look like this chart has made it onto our new docs and it might be slightly out of date; I logged a bug to fix this).

TL;DR is that write limit from the client SDKs is 32 MB (at least from the web / Node.js SDK; it might still be 16 MB on the mobile clients) and write limit from the REST API is 256 MB.

So, you should either try to upload using the REST API or break up your data and upload it in smaller individual pieces.

Cheers,
Jacob
On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 8:43 AM, Jagdeep Singh <jagdeepm...@gmail.com> wrote:
Does any one know what is the maximum size of file that firebase allow to upload, i have 135MB of data that i am trying to upload and on each attempt its not working

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Jacob Wenger

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Aug 5, 2016, 2:30:40 PM8/5/16
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Don't always upload to the root of your database. Instead, try uploading data to one child key at a time.

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Joe White

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Aug 5, 2016, 8:30:08 PM8/5/16
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You might also want to consider uploading data to "storage" and putting the reference to the stored data in the Firebase Realtime database

Jagdeep Singh

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Aug 5, 2016, 8:37:33 PM8/5/16
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Interesting , i dint know there was a way to make a reference from storage to database, is there any documentation that you might know.

also thanks to all for replying, i find a way to upload directly to "Realtime database" without browser


I prefer python as nodeJs is consuming too much memory usage on my machine.

Cheers :)

Joe White

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Aug 5, 2016, 8:48:47 PM8/5/16
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Sorry -- I meant reference from FIrebase Realtime database to a storage location (containing the 135MB "data")
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