Firebase “too_big” error querying a ref with huge number of children












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Here is how I query my firebase database.



var firebase = require("firebase-admin");
// initialization steps...

firebase.database().ref('Users').orderByChild('email').equalTo('someemail@somedomain.com')
.once('value')
.then(snapshot=>{
const records = snapshot.val();
console.log("value is: ", records);
})
.catch(err=> console.log(err));


So I have an immediate child of root Users which has several thousand children. Each child(A individual user identified by a firebase generated key) has an attribute email (among others)



When I query it like that, I get this error:



{ Error: too_big at /Users: The data requested exceeds the maximum size that can be accessed with a single request.


So how do I query for this value?










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    Here is how I query my firebase database.



    var firebase = require("firebase-admin");
    // initialization steps...

    firebase.database().ref('Users').orderByChild('email').equalTo('someemail@somedomain.com')
    .once('value')
    .then(snapshot=>{
    const records = snapshot.val();
    console.log("value is: ", records);
    })
    .catch(err=> console.log(err));


    So I have an immediate child of root Users which has several thousand children. Each child(A individual user identified by a firebase generated key) has an attribute email (among others)



    When I query it like that, I get this error:



    { Error: too_big at /Users: The data requested exceeds the maximum size that can be accessed with a single request.


    So how do I query for this value?










    share|improve this question

























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      Here is how I query my firebase database.



      var firebase = require("firebase-admin");
      // initialization steps...

      firebase.database().ref('Users').orderByChild('email').equalTo('someemail@somedomain.com')
      .once('value')
      .then(snapshot=>{
      const records = snapshot.val();
      console.log("value is: ", records);
      })
      .catch(err=> console.log(err));


      So I have an immediate child of root Users which has several thousand children. Each child(A individual user identified by a firebase generated key) has an attribute email (among others)



      When I query it like that, I get this error:



      { Error: too_big at /Users: The data requested exceeds the maximum size that can be accessed with a single request.


      So how do I query for this value?










      share|improve this question














      Here is how I query my firebase database.



      var firebase = require("firebase-admin");
      // initialization steps...

      firebase.database().ref('Users').orderByChild('email').equalTo('someemail@somedomain.com')
      .once('value')
      .then(snapshot=>{
      const records = snapshot.val();
      console.log("value is: ", records);
      })
      .catch(err=> console.log(err));


      So I have an immediate child of root Users which has several thousand children. Each child(A individual user identified by a firebase generated key) has an attribute email (among others)



      When I query it like that, I get this error:



      { Error: too_big at /Users: The data requested exceeds the maximum size that can be accessed with a single request.


      So how do I query for this value?







      firebase firebase-realtime-database






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