diff --git a/firebase_admin/_sseclient.py b/firebase_admin/_sseclient.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..26dd66977
--- /dev/null
+++ b/firebase_admin/_sseclient.py
@@ -0,0 +1,206 @@
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+"""SSEClient module to handle streaming of realtime changes on the database
+to the firebase-admin-sdk
+"""
+
+import re
+import time
+import warnings
+import six
+import requests
+
+
+# Technically, we should support streams that mix line endings.  This regex,
+# however, assumes that a system will provide consistent line endings.
+end_of_field = re.compile(r'\r\n\r\n|\r\r|\n\n')
+
+
+class KeepAuthSession(requests.Session):
+    """A session that does not drop Authentication on redirects between domains"""
+    def rebuild_auth(self, prepared_request, response):
+        pass
+
+
+class SSEClient(object):
+    """SSE Client Class"""
+
+    def __init__(self, url, session, last_id=None, retry=3000, **kwargs):
+        """Initialize the SSEClient
+        Args:
+          url: the url to connect to
+          session: the requests.session()
+          last_id: optional id
+          retry: the interval in ms
+          **kwargs: extra kwargs will be sent to requests.get
+        """
+        self.should_connect = True
+        self.url = url
+        self.last_id = last_id
+        self.retry = retry
+        self.session = session
+        self.requests_kwargs = kwargs
+
+        headers = self.requests_kwargs.get('headers', {})
+        # The SSE spec requires making requests with Cache-Control: nocache
+        headers['Cache-Control'] = 'no-cache'
+        # The 'Accept' header is not required, but explicit > implicit
+        headers['Accept'] = 'text/event-stream'
+
+        self.requests_kwargs['headers'] = headers
+
+        # Keep data here as it streams in
+        self.buf = u''
+
+        self._connect()
+
+    def close(self):
+        """Close the SSE Client instance"""
+        # TODO: check if AttributeError is needed to catch here
+        self.should_connect = False
+        self.retry = 0
+        self.resp.close()
+        #  self.resp.raw._fp.fp.raw._sock.shutdown(socket.SHUT_RDWR)
+        #  self.resp.raw._fp.fp.raw._sock.close()
+
+
+    def _connect(self):
+        """connects to the server using requests"""
+        if self.should_connect:
+            success = False
+            while not success:
+                if self.last_id:
+                    self.requests_kwargs['headers']['Last-Event-ID'] = self.last_id
+                # Use session if set.  Otherwise fall back to requests module.
+                self.requester = self.session or requests
+                self.resp = self.requester.get(self.url, stream=True, **self.requests_kwargs)
+
+                self.resp_iterator = self.resp.iter_content(decode_unicode=True)
+
+                # TODO: Ensure we're handling redirects.  Might also stick the 'origin'
+                # attribute on Events like the Javascript spec requires.
+                self.resp.raise_for_status()
+                success = True
+        else:
+            raise StopIteration()
+
+    def _event_complete(self):
+        """Checks if the event is completed by matching regular expression
+
+        Returns:
+           boolean: True if the regex matched meaning end of event, else False
+        """
+        return re.search(end_of_field, self.buf) is not None
+
+    def __iter__(self):
+        return self
+
+    def __next__(self):
+        while not self._event_complete():
+            try:
+                nextchar = next(self.resp_iterator)
+                self.buf += nextchar
+            except (StopIteration, requests.RequestException):
+                time.sleep(self.retry / 1000.0)
+                self._connect()
+
+
+                # The SSE spec only supports resuming from a whole message, so
+                # if we have half a message we should throw it out.
+                head, sep, tail = self.buf.rpartition('\n')
+                self.buf = head + sep
+                continue
+
+        split = re.split(end_of_field, self.buf)
+        head = split[0]
+        tail = "".join(split[1:])
+
+        self.buf = tail
+        msg = Event.parse(head)
+
+        if msg.data == "credential is no longer valid":
+            self._connect()
+            return None
+
+        if msg.data == 'null':
+            return None
+
+        # If the server requests a specific retry delay, we need to honor it.
+        if msg.retry:
+            self.retry = msg.retry
+
+        # last_id should only be set if included in the message.  It's not
+        # forgotten if a message omits it.
+        if msg.event_id:
+            self.last_id = msg.event_id
+
+        return msg
+
+    if six.PY2:
+        next = __next__
+
+
+class Event(object):
+    """Event class to handle the events fired by SSE"""
+
+    sse_line_pattern = re.compile('(?P<name>[^:]*):?( ?(?P<value>.*))?')
+
+    def __init__(self, data='', event='message', event_id=None, retry=None):
+        self.data = data
+        self.event = event
+        self.event_id = event_id
+        self.retry = retry
+
+    @classmethod
+    def parse(cls, raw):
+        """Given a possibly-multiline string representing an SSE message, parse it
+        and return a Event object.
+
+        Args:
+          raw: the raw data to parse
+
+        Returns:
+          Event: newly intialized Event() object with the parameters  initialized
+        """
+        msg = cls()
+        for line in raw.split('\n'):
+            match = cls.sse_line_pattern.match(line)
+            if match is None:
+                # Malformed line.  Discard but warn.
+                warnings.warn('Invalid SSE line: "%s"' % line, SyntaxWarning)
+                continue
+
+            name = match.groupdict()['name']
+            value = match.groupdict()['value']
+            if name == '':
+                # line began with a ":", so is a comment.  Ignore
+                continue
+
+            if name == 'data':
+                # If we already have some data, then join to it with a newline.
+                # Else this is it.
+                if msg.data:
+                    msg.data = '%s\n%s' % (msg.data, value)
+                else:
+                    msg.data = value
+            elif name == 'event':
+                msg.event = value
+            elif name == 'id':
+                msg.event_id = value
+            elif name == 'retry':
+                msg.retry = int(value)
+
+        return msg
+
+    def __str__(self):
+        return self.data
diff --git a/firebase_admin/db.py b/firebase_admin/db.py
index 43ca7c495..508d7db4b 100644
--- a/firebase_admin/db.py
+++ b/firebase_admin/db.py
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 import collections
 import json
 import sys
+import threading
 
 import requests
 import six
@@ -31,8 +32,14 @@
 import firebase_admin
 from firebase_admin import _http_client
 from firebase_admin import _utils
+from firebase_admin import _sseclient
 
 
+try:
+    from urllib.parse import urlencode
+except ImportError:
+    from urllib import urlencode
+
 _DB_ATTRIBUTE = '_database'
 _INVALID_PATH_CHARACTERS = '[].?#$'
 _RESERVED_FILTERS = ('$key', '$value', '$priority')
@@ -75,6 +82,47 @@ def _parse_path(path):
     return [seg for seg in path.split('/') if seg]
 
 
+class ListenerRegistration(object):
+    """Class that handles the streaming of data node changes from server"""
+    def __init__(self, url, stream_handler):
+        """Initialize a new ListenerRegistration object with given parameters
+
+        Args:
+          url: the data node url to listen for changes
+          stream_handler: the callback function to fire in case of event
+        """
+        self.url = url
+        self.stream_handler = stream_handler
+        self.sse = None
+        self.thread = None
+        self.start()
+
+    def start(self):
+        """Start the streaming by spawning a thread"""
+        self.sse = _sseclient.SSEClient(
+            self.url,
+            session=_sseclient.KeepAuthSession()
+        )
+        self.thread = threading.Thread(target=self.start_stream)
+        self.thread.start()
+        return self
+
+    def start_stream(self):
+        """Streaming function for the spawned thread to run"""
+        for msg in self.sse:
+            # iterate the sse client's generator
+            if msg:
+                msg_data = json.loads(msg.data)
+                msg_data["event"] = msg.event
+                self.stream_handler(msg_data)
+
+    def close(self):
+        """Terminates SSE server connection and joins the thread"""
+        self.sse.running = False
+        self.sse.close()
+        self.thread.join()
+
+
 class Reference(object):
     """Reference represents a node in the Firebase realtime database."""
 
@@ -107,6 +155,22 @@ def parent(self):
             return Reference(client=self._client, segments=self._segments[:-1])
         return None
 
+    def listen(self, stream_handler):
+        """Function to setup the streaming of data from server data node changes
+
+        Args:
+          stream_handler: A function to callback in the event of data node change detected
+
+        Returns:
+          object: Returns a ListenerRegistration object which handles the stream
+        """
+        parameters = {}
+        # reset path and build_query for next query
+        request_ref = '{}{}.json?{}'.format(
+            self._client.base_url, self._pathurl, urlencode(parameters)
+        )
+        return ListenerRegistration(request_ref, stream_handler)
+
     def child(self, path):
         """Returns a Reference to the specified child node.
 
diff --git a/tests/test_db.py b/tests/test_db.py
index 346977a11..3e3044c59 100644
--- a/tests/test_db.py
+++ b/tests/test_db.py
@@ -523,7 +523,7 @@ def test_range_query(self):
         assert recorder[0].headers['User-Agent'] == db._USER_AGENT
 
 
-class TestDatabseInitialization(object):
+class TestDatabaseInitialization(object):
     """Test cases for database initialization."""
 
     def teardown_method(self):
diff --git a/tests/test_sseclient.py b/tests/test_sseclient.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..422fef172
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_sseclient.py
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+"""Tests for firebase_admin.sseclient."""
+import json
+import six
+import requests
+
+from firebase_admin import _sseclient
+from tests.testutils import MockAdapter
+
+
+class MockSSEClient(MockAdapter):
+    def __init__(self, payload):
+        status = 200
+        recorder = []
+        MockAdapter.__init__(self, payload, status, recorder)
+
+    def send(self, request, **kwargs):
+        resp = requests.models.Response()
+        resp.url = request.url
+        resp.status_code = self._status
+        resp.raw = six.BytesIO(self._data.encode())
+        resp.encoding = "utf-8"
+        return resp
+
+
+class TestSSEClient(object):
+    """Test cases for the SSEClient"""
+
+    test_url = "https://test.firebaseio.com"
+
+
+    def init_sse(self):
+        payload = 'event: put\ndata: {"path":"/","data":"testevent"}\n\n'
+
+        adapter = MockSSEClient(payload)
+        session = _sseclient.KeepAuthSession()
+        session.mount(self.test_url, adapter)
+
+        sseclient = _sseclient.SSEClient(url=self.test_url, session=session)
+        return sseclient
+
+
+    def test_init_sseclient(self):
+        sseclient = self.init_sse()
+
+        assert sseclient.url == self.test_url
+        assert sseclient.session != None
+
+    def test_event(self):
+        sseclient = self.init_sse()
+        msg = next(sseclient)
+        event = json.loads(msg.data)
+        assert event["data"] == "testevent"
+        assert event["path"] == "/"
+
+
+class TestEvent(object):
+    """Test cases for Events"""
+
+    def test_normal(self):
+        data = 'event: put\ndata: {"path":"/","data":"testdata"}'
+        event = _sseclient.Event.parse(data)
+        assert event.event == "put"
+        assert event.data == '{"path":"/","data":"testdata"}'
+
+    def test_invalid(self):
+        data = 'event: invalid_event'
+        event = _sseclient.Event.parse(data)
+        assert event.event == "invalid_event"
+        assert event.data == ''