Storage
- Firebase. As-a-service realtime database.
Medias
- Cloudinary.
Image and video upload, storage, manipulation, optimization and digital asset management.
Point of views
SQL vs NoSQL
I believe the real question is normalised vs denormalised. It obviously depends but prefer the decision that do NOT forces you to make “hard” choices too early. (i.e. denormalised is nice to get started with when you don’t really know about your domain).