Flutter Firebase Database store/ read data by date

Question

I'm new to NoSql schema design. I would like to store some race schedule, this is how i do it now.

/{Year}
------>/{Month}
------>------>/{Day}
------>------>------/{raceNumber}
------>------>------>------>/{raceMeta}

I have the following questions:

1. Is it possible to retrieve a result like

["dd/mm/YYYY",...] 

or

["2018":
        ["01":
              ["01":...],
              ...
        ...
        ],
 "2019":
...]

, without initializing all child node? I've found shallow query for Firebase, but seems it can only query the single layer.

2. Is this a good design/practice to structure such data in that way?

Thanks for the help!

3. I would like to have an function to navigate through records, for example selecting a date from a list of dates from the database, and by simply clicking arrows to move forward/ backward, how can I archive that?

Answer 1

Change the format of date from 31/12/2022 to 31-12-2022 and you are good to go.