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Can the tag be renamed to ?

As the tag info states the tag is for Firebase Realtime Database and since the arrival of , a different kind of database from Firebase, there have been an increasing amount of questions about Firestore tagged with . The reason for the mistagging is the fact that Firebase has multiple kinds of databases and a general name like "firebase-database" doesn't describe wich type of Firebase database it is about

To avoid these mistakes from now on I suggest the tag be renamed to .

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  • So, because people are mist-tagging "firestore" questions, you want "firebase" to be renamed? Commented Aug 28, 2018 at 12:22
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    @Cerbrus The reason for the mistagging is the fact that Firebase has multiple kinds of databases and a general name like "firebase-database" doesn't describe wich type of Firebase database it is about. I will include this in my question in a min. Commented Aug 28, 2018 at 12:25
  • I favor this change. But. If we are sticking with naming conventions then google-cloud-firestore is appropriate and then so is google-realtime-database Commented Aug 28, 2018 at 18:02
  • @Jay The name i proposed is in the current tag info which in turn comes from firebase.google.com. Commented Aug 28, 2018 at 19:38
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    Oh. My apologies. My comment was supposed to be a comment to the answer by ivan to follow "vendor-product" form. Either way, I agree with you there's a lot of crossover tag use between the different products. I get storage questions in the firebase-database tag and cloud-firestore questions in the Firebase-database tag etc. Then we have the generic Firebase tag which is a catch all. More clearly defining which database is being used via a more descriptive tag is a great idea. Commented Aug 28, 2018 at 20:20
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    Thanks for requesting this change André. And thanks for making the change so quickly @BhargavRao. Even after only a few days, I can already see a reduction in mistagged questions. 👍 Commented Sep 1, 2018 at 16:31
  • That's some really good news @FrankvanPuffelen. Commented Sep 1, 2018 at 19:52

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The tag sounds good to me. It's definitely been more work to retag the wrong " on a question" tags.

Any reason why we can't do this through a synonym though? If we just create the new tag, start using that, and then define the old tag as a synonym. We've done that with (maps to ) and (maps to ) too and the problem was quickly solved on those cases (although surprisingly not for ).

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  • This sounds like a good idea. I posted it here because I only had the experience of the firebase-security-rules synonym as shown in my question about that. Commented Aug 28, 2018 at 21:08
  • The tag has been renamed after the top user of the tag (Frank van Puffelen) has confirmed that the tag rename would be fine. Commented Aug 28, 2018 at 21:39
  • @BhargavRao Do you see any problem with us defining firebase-database as a synonym? Commented Aug 28, 2018 at 22:53
  • @FrankvanPuffelen, Nope, added it as a synonym. Should take 3 minutes for the cache to clear and the change to reflect everywhere. Commented Aug 28, 2018 at 22:54
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    Thanks @BhargavRao! And thanks André for raising this. Commented Aug 29, 2018 at 0:10
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According to Choose a Database: Cloud Firestore or Realtime Database | Firebase, the official product names are now "Cloud Firestore" and "Realtime Database".

As such, the suggested tags look like the optimal choice: they are both in the straightforward form of "vendor-product" -- which is as clear as we can get in this situation of similarly-named products.

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