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You can leverage Postgres full-text search, and GeoJSON/PostGIS support. Also for replacing algolia ElasticSearch comes to mind, that should work for most of those use cases.

For analytics and in the SaaS part you have both mixpanel and segment, and also some nice privacy-aware alternatives to Google analytics like fathom and some other indie startup.

Recently some open source segment alternative came along in HN...

MS PowerBI connects with lots of stuff, although it's paid ELK is open source Also metabase is a nice open source tool for BI.

Lots of tools!




What I was trying to say is that I was anticipating having to write and maintain a bunch of glue between firebase and these tools and maybe eventually outgrowing this glue.

A benefit of using a traditional SQL database is much of this stuff exists already off the shelf.

Maybe Firebase is there or is getting there. It's almost two years since I built something on it.




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