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If there is 1000 songs and 1000 people voting, creating one semaphore will have 999 people waiting even if they are all voting on different songs. Correct?

If you have 1-million people, you'd have 1-million semaphores to synchronize your database? Think about scaling..

You need to use a Transaction operation for your database. See here: https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/ios/read-and-write#save_data_as_transactions

The above example seems to be the same thing you're attempting to do (voting with stars and incremental counters).

You cannot synchronize a remote database with a sempahore on the client-side anyway.. Unless I'm mistaken and your DB is local. In any case, a Transaction operation is the way to go.


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