GCP Firestore & ColdFusion 2023 the NoSQL easy button
With the release of ColdFusion 2023 there are a lot of new features to work with the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services. One of those features is working with GCP Firestore. Firestore is a NoSQL document database built for automatic scaling, high performance, and ease of application development.
Working with NoSQL databases is a little different. Most are used to relational databases that have been around forever. NoSQL databases offer a different range of features and functions that RDBs can't offer. For example, imagine creating a database where you are not locked into a schema, and that schema could be different for each record.
In this session, we will go over the setup and configuration of GCP Firestore. We will go over the options offered by GCP and what may work for you. We will go over the integration into ColdFusion 2023 and how easy it is to get all this up and running. We will also take some time to go over the coding differences NoSQL and RDB.