Message gurantees on rapidly updated entities in Firebase -

i'd understand how firebase , listening clients behave in situation large number of updates made entity in short amount of time, , client listening 'value' changes on entity.

say have entity in firebase simple data.

{   "entity": 1 } 

and value of "entity" updated rapidly. below code writes 1000 integers.

//pseudo-code making 1000 writes possible for(var = 0; < 1000; i++) {    ref.child('entity').set(i) } 

ignoring transient issues, listening client using 'on' api in browser receive 1000 notifications containing 0-999, or firebase have throttles in place?

first off, it's important note firebase realtime database state synchronization service, , not pub/sub service.

if have location updating rapidly, service guarantees state consistent across clients, not intermittent states surfaced. @ 1 event fire every update, server free 'squash' successive updates same location one.

on client making updates, think current behavior every change propagates local event, wrong , notable exception.

in order achieve guaranteed delivery of every intermediate state, it's possible push (childbyautoid in objective-c) onto list of events @ database location instead of updating value directly. check out firebase rest api docs on saving lists of data