How to scale Firebase real time database connection beyond 100K ?

[Nishant Raju]

How to scale Firebase real time database connection beyond 100K ?

[Jay]

Cross post to

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45249604/how-to-scale-firebase-real-time-database-connection-beyond-100k

[Tyler Rockwood]

Also posted on Stack Overflow is Mike's great explanation: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44291822/firebase-database-strategy-for-simultaneous-connections-of-100k/44314105#44314105

TL;DR create as many databases as you need and bucket your users to each use a different database. If you need help sharding into multiple databases, post your data structure here or on one of our other community channels and I'm sure people would help you out to do this.

[Tyler Rockwood]

As a follow up, we're released an official page in our documentation about this: https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/usage/sharding