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Cloud Firestore (NoSQL, Document database)

  • 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

Cloud Firestore is next gen Cloud Datastore

It is backwardly compatible with Cloud Datastore. It can operate in 2 modes

Datastore mode (recommended for: new server projects)

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 (recommended for: new mobile and web apps)

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)