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    <h1>The Idea</h1> <p>A near solution is to create an index of your data which is indexed by City (or whichever other field you'd like to search by) in a server-side NodeJS script. </p> <p>This will <em>not quite</em> replicate the behavior of <code>LIKE</code>, however it will allow for easy querying by City name, which may eliminate the need for that behavior.</p> <h1>The Node Script</h1> <p>This is typically done via a simple server-side script written in NodeJS. Imagine a scenario where your user data was stored in <code>/users/data</code>. Your script would look like this.</p> <pre><code>var ref = new Firebase("&lt;Your Firebase&gt;.firebaseio.com"); // A Firebase ref where all our users are stored var userDataRef = ref.child('users/data'); // A Firebase ref which is where we store our index var byCityRef = ref.child("users/byCity"); // Then bind to users/data so we can index each user as they're added userDataRef.on("child_added", function (snapshot) { // Load the user details var user = snapshot.val(); // Use the snapshot name as an ID (i.e. /users/data/Tim has an ID of "Tim") var userID = snapshot.name(); // Push the userID into users/byCity/{city} byCityRef.child(user.city).push(userID); }); </code></pre> <p>This script will create a structure like this:</p> <pre><code>{ "users": { "data": { "Tim": {"hair": "red", "eyes": "green", "city": "Chicago"} }, "byCity": { "Chicago": { "-asd09u12": "Tim" } } } } </code></pre> <h1>The Client Script</h1> <p>Once we've indexed our data, querying against it is simple and can be done in two easy steps.</p> <pre><code>var ref = new Firebase("&lt;Your Firebase&gt;.firebaseio.com"); var userDataRef = ref.child('users/data'); var byCityRef = ref.child('users/byCity') // Load children of /users/byCity/Chicago byCityRef.child('Chicago').on("child_added", function (snapshot) { // Find each user's unique ID var userID = snapshot.val(); // Then load the User's data from /users/data/{ID} userDataRef.child(userID).once(function (snapshot) { // userID = "Tim" // user = {"hair": "red", "eyes": "green", "city": "Chicago"} var user = snapshot.val(); }); }); </code></pre> <p>Now you have the near realtime load speed of Firebase with powerful querying capabilities!</p>
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    1. COGreat answer abe! We'll also have a post about contextual searches (LIKE) on [the blog](https://www.firebase.com/blog/), circa next week!
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