While I completely empathize with you, that can be tricky in a fully distributed document store and to be fair, counting records in dynamodb is also a PITA.<p>Have you checked out using distributed counters to track the record count yourself? Read through the answers on this SO post. That might help.<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46554091/firebase-firestore-collection-count" rel="nofollow">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46554091/firebase-firest...</a>