Firebase 数据库 - “扇出"技术 [英] Firebase Database - the "Fan Out" technique

问题描述

我正在调查适用于 Android 的 Firebase 数据库

我不太熟悉 NoSQL 技术并试图理解为什么我们必须将每个 post 实体持久化两次 - 在 posts 和 user_posts相应地.文档说这种方法称为扇出"，我完全同意通过 databaseReference.child("user-posts").child("<user_uid>").但是为什么我们需要 posts 节点呢?如果我们需要更新一些帖子怎么办 - 我们必须做两次吗?

//[开始 write_fan_out]private void writeNewPost(String userId, String username, String title, String body) {//在/user-posts/$userid/$postid 和在///posts/$postid 同时String key = mDatabase.child("posts").push().getKey();Post post = new Post(userId, username, title, body);映射<字符串，对象>postValues = post.toMap();映射<字符串，对象>childUpdates = new HashMap<>();childUpdates.put("/posts/" + key, postValues);childUpdates.put("/user-posts/" + userId + "/" + key, postValues);mDatabase.updateChildren(childUpdates);}//[结束 write_fan_out]

所以我想知道……这种方法什么时候有用，什么时候没用?Firebase SDK 是否提供任何工具以在更新或删除数据时使所有重复项保持同步?

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更新:这是

这样，您可以跟踪用户在 users-posts 节点下写了哪些帖子；以及在 posts 节点下编写每个帖子的用户.现在，您可能需要获取所有用户帖子的列表.您需要做的是在 users-posts/USER_KEY/ 节点上进行同步，以 获取用户撰写的所有帖子的密钥，然后获取更多使用您刚刚获得的发布密钥发布信息.

为什么推荐这种数据库设计?因为您为每次同步获取的信息要少得多(对于 Firebase，我们本身不会发出请求，所以我将读取称为同步).在您的示例中，如果您将侦听器附加到 user-posts/USER_KEY/ 以获取所有帖子的列表，您还将要求 ALL 的信息>他们写的每一篇帖子.使用数据扇出方法，您只需询问您需要的帖子信息，因为您已经拥有帖子的密钥.

I was investigating the Firebase Database sample for Android and realized that it stores its data in the following way:

I am not quite familiar with NoSQL techniques and trying to understand why we have to persist each post entity twice - at posts and user_posts correspondingly. The documentation says that this approach is called "Fan Out" and I fully agree that it might be useful to access user's posts via simple construction like databaseReference.child("user-posts").child("<user_uid>"). But why do we need the posts node then? What if we need to update some post - do we have to do it twice?

// [START write_fan_out]
private void writeNewPost(String userId, String username, String title, String body) {
    // Create new post at /user-posts/$userid/$postid and at
    // /posts/$postid simultaneously
    String key = mDatabase.child("posts").push().getKey();
    Post post = new Post(userId, username, title, body);
    Map<String, Object> postValues = post.toMap();

    Map<String, Object> childUpdates = new HashMap<>();
    childUpdates.put("/posts/" + key, postValues);
    childUpdates.put("/user-posts/" + userId + "/" + key, postValues);

    mDatabase.updateChildren(childUpdates);
}
// [END write_fan_out]

So I wonder... when this approach might be useful and when not? Does Firebase SDK provide any tools to keep all duplicates in sync when updating or removing data?

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UPDATE: Here is the explanation received from Firebase team:

the reason the posts are duplicated is because we want to be able to quickly get all the posts belonging to a user (as you suggested) and filtering from the list of all posts ever to get the posts by one user can get pretty expensive as the number of posts expands.

This does mean that we have to update the post in two locations whenever we update it. It makes the code a little uglier but since queries are more common than writes it's better to optimize for reading the data.

I suspect that this approach might look not quite elegant but it is probably the fastest option for large data sets as long as you perform SELECT more often than UPDATE. However, for some cases I'd rather stick to other solutions recommended here.

解决方案

Data Fan Out is a great technique to manage massive amounts of data. If you do not use this pattern, you could have serious scaling problems in the future.

What I see from your database structure, is that you are storing the whole post information twice, and that is not a good practice. You want to store just a reference to the post under another node instead. So, you will have a node named users-postswhich will consist of user keys, and each of those keys will have a set of posts keys with value of true. To make it more clear:

This way, you are tracking which posts the user has written under the users-posts node; and also the user that has written each post under the posts node. Now, you may need to get a list of all users' posts. What you would have to do is to synchronize on the users-posts/USER_KEY/ node to get the keys for all the posts that the user has written, and then get more post information using the post key you just got.

Why is this database design recommended? Because you are getting much less information for each synchronization (with Firebase we are not issuing requests per-se, so I call the reading a synchronization). In your example, if you attach a listener to the user-posts/USER_KEY/ to get a list of all posts, you will also ask for ALL the information of EACH AND EVERY post they have written. With the data fan out approach you can just ask for the post information you need because you already have the key of the posts.

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