title: Real time application with CakePHP
body: <p>I'm currently have an app built with CakePHP, it's a fantasy football site. However, I built the draft platform really poorly, it's essentially javascript on a timer that just updates the the view every few seconds. </p>
  
  <p>I've been looking into Firebase + Angularjs for doing the draft in real time but I don't really understand Firebase in depth. It just stores everything as JSON? Which I don't think would be the right path since a relational database helps a lot with having a list of players, stats, plus teams that have associations to the players, different leagues, etc. Unless firebase can be made to work with a relation database, I'm not sure if it's for me (Or I could just have a poor understanding of it). </p>
  
  <p>What are some other technologies that might be helpful with real time data? I've looked at node.js, pusher, and socket.io but I'm not sure which one would play the best with CakePHP. </p>