Abstract

• Nowadays, mobile applications are widely used in organizations. Moreover, mobile applications have become more and more reliant upon large amount of database and unorganized data such as videos, images, audio, text, files and other arbitrary types. It is difficult for Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) to handle the unstructured data. Firebase is a powerful web and mobile application platform to solve the key challenges of app development. This platform is a Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) solution both for mobile and web-based applications. Moreover, firebase is a relatively new technology for handling large amount of unstructured data. It is very fast when compared to RDBMS. This paper develops a university student attendance system using Firebase and intend its concepts, related terminologies, advantages and limitations. Student attendance systems rely on large amount of database, require prompt system responses and the number of user access to the applications is unpredictable. Therefore, student attendance system was developed to demonstrate the real-time affordances of Firebase and its features.