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Committed to storage APIs, retiring Realtime API
November 28, 2017
Posted by Paul McReynolds, Product Manager, G Suite Developer Platform
We
launched
Google Realtime API in 2013 to help developers build collaborative apps using familiar JSON-based data models, while leaving the complexities of real-time synchronization to the API. Since then, we've developed other fast, flexible cloud-based storage solutions like
Google Cloud SQL
and
Google Cloud Firestore
. As a result, we’ve decided to deprecate
Realtime API
in favor of these new, powerful solutions.
We’re investing heavily in Google Cloud Platform, as well as
Firebase
—our mobile development platform—to help developers build scalable, performant applications. While these solutions aren't a direct analog to the Drive Realtime API, we're confident they can meet most of your needs:
Google Cloud SQL
: Fully-managed database service that makes it easy to set up, maintain, manage, and administer your relational PostgreSQL and MySQL databases in the cloud.
Firebase Realtime Database
: Cloud-hosted NoSQL database that lets you store and sync data between your users in real-time.
Google Cloud Firestore
: We recently
announced
Cloud Firestore to help developers build responsive apps that work regardless of network latency or Internet connectivity. If you're curious about Firebase Realtime Database vs. Cloud Firestore, we've got you
covered
.
Existing Realtime API client applications will continue to work normally until
December 11, 2018
, but we are no longer accepting new clients of the API. After the API is decommissioned, to facilitate migration, we will continue to provide a mechanism for applications to access document contents as JSON.
More specific deprecation timelines
We know developers and partners have come to rely on Realtime API and that migration may be a significant effort. We hope that the deprecation timelines summarized below allow for a smooth transition.
November 28, 2017
Realtime API is no longer available for new projects.
1
December 11, 2018
Realtime API documents become read-only, and attempts to modify document contents using the API fail.
January 15, 2019
Realtime API is shut down, but a JSON export API remains available.
1
Projects which accessed the Realtime API prior to November 28, 2017 will continue to function as before. All other projects, including new projects, will be blocked from accessing the Realtime API.
Migration tips
Applications using the Realtime API will need to migrate to another data store. Our
migration guide
provides instructions on how to export Realtime document data and also how that data can be imported into Google Cloud Firestore. After Realtime API is shut down, we will continue to provide a means for exporting Realtime document contents as JSON.
Additional information and support
You can read more about the deprecation in our
documentation
. If you have questions that aren’t answered there, see the
support page
for how to get help.
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