- Live sync and offline support
- For Mobile, web and iot apps
- Flexible schema
- Scale down to 0
- Scale up to TBs
- Powerful query engine
- ACID transactions supported
It is backwardly compatible with Cloud Datastore. It can operate in 2 modes
Removes some older limitations
- Compatible with Datastore apps
- Strong consistency
- No entity group limits. Transactions are no longer limited to 25 entity groups and writes to an entity group are no longer limited to 1 Write/s
Native mode introduces new features such as:
- Strongly consistent storage layer
- New Collection and document data model (Only in native mode)
- Real-time updates (Only in native mode)
- Supports Mobile and web clinet libraries (Only in native mode)