# Increasing the scaling limits of the Firebase Realtime Database

DevFeed: [Increasing the scaling limits of the Firebase Realtime Database](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/increasing-the-scaling-limits-of-the-firebase-realtime-database-16327.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://firebase.blog/posts/2019/09/increasing-realtime-database-scaling>)

Author: Jamie Niemasik

Published: 2019-09-19T00:00:00Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [Firebase Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/firebase-blog.md>)

Topics: [Realtime Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/realtime-database.md>), [Scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/scalability.md>), [sharding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sharding.md>), [Firebase](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/firebase.md>), [Firestore](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/firestore.md>)

Tags: [firebase](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/firebase.md>), [firestore](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/firestore.md>), [iot](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/iot.md>), [launch](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/launch.md>), [low-latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/low-latency.md>), [realtime-database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/realtime-database.md>), [scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scalability.md>), [serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/serverless.md>), [sharding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sharding.md>)

## AI overview

Firebase announces that it has doubled the Firebase Realtime Database concurrent connections limit from 100,000 to 200,000 for existing databases and new projects. The article also explains sharding across database instances for higher aggregate capacity and discusses use cases such as collaborative applications and IoT sensors.

## Source excerpt

News, tutorials, and updates from the Firebase team.