Firestore: NoSQL document database

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Firestore

Easily develop rich applications using a fully managed, scalable, and serverless document database. Try Firestore free ● Created with Sketch. Serverless document database that effortlessly scales to meet any demand, with no maintenance ● Created with Sketch. Accelerate development of mobile, web, and IoT apps with direct connectivity to the database ● Created with Sketch. Built-in live synchronization and offline mode makes it easy to develop real-time applications ● Created with Sketch. Fully customizable security and data validation rules to ensure the data is always protected ● Created with Sketch. Seamless integration with Firebase and Google Cloud services like Cloud Functions and BigQuery An overview of the capabilities of Firestore.

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Introducing Firestore: A document database that simplifies data for your apps.

Benefits

Launch applications and features faster

Firestore offers a great developer experience with built-in live synchronization, offline support, and ACID transactions. These features are available across a robust set of client and server-side libraries.

Effortlessly scale to meet unpredictable demand

Firestore automatically scales up and down based on demand. It requires no maintenance, and provides high availability of 99.99–99.999% achieved through strongly consistent data replication.

Simple and flexible with pay as you go

No-ops database lets you pay only for what you use—no up-front expenditure or underutilized resources. Simplified architecture lets your apps talk directly to Firestore from your mobile or web clients. Key features

Key features

Serverless

Focus on your application development using a fully managed, serverless database that effortlessly scales up or down to meet any demand, with no maintenance windows or downtime.

Live synchronization and offline mode

Built-in live synchronization and offline mode makes it easy to build multi-user, collaborative applications on mobile web, and IoT devices, including workloads consisting of live asset tracking, activity tracking, real-time analytics, media and product catalogs, communications, social user profiles, and gaming leaderboards.

Powerful query engine

Firestore allows you to run sophisticated ACID transactions against your document data. This gives you more flexibility in the way you structure your data. View all features How do queries work in Cloud Firestore?

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How do queries work in Cloud Firestore?

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Quickstart

Quickstart using a mobile/web client library

Set up a Firestore database, add data, and read data using the Android, iOS, or Web client libraries. Learn more Quickstart

Quickstart using a server client library

Set up a Firestore database, add data, and read data using the the C#, Go, Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, or Ruby server client library. Learn more Best Practice

Firestore best practices

This article describes considerations and processes for migrating data from an Apache HBase cluster to a Cloud Bigtable cluster on Google Cloud. Learn more Tutorial

Building scalable applications with Firestore

Best practices for building apps that use Firestore, including data location, document IDs, field names, indexes, read and write operations and designing for scale. Learn more Tutorial

Firestore sample app

This document describes when to use Firestore to build large applications. Learn more APIs & Libraries

Firestore client libraries

Build a sample app for Android, iOS, Web, or Java. Learn more

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Quickstarts Get a quick intro to using this product. How-to guides Learn to complete specific tasks with this product. Tutorials Browse walkthroughs of common uses and scenarios for this product. APIs & references View APIs, references, and other resources for this product. Release notes Read about the latest releases for Firebase All features

All features

Serverless	Fully managed, serverless database that effortlessly scales up or down to meet any demand, with no maintenance windows or downtime.
Live synchronization and offline mode	Built-in live synchronization and offline mode make it easy to build multi-user, collaborative applications on mobile web, and IoT devices, including workloads consisting of live asset tracking, activity tracking, real-time analytics, media and product catalogs, communications, social user profiles, and gaming leaderboards.
Powerful query engine	Firestore allows you to run sophisticated ACID transactions against your document data. This gives you more flexibility in the way you structure your data.
Libraries for popular languages	Focus on your application development using Firestore client-side development libraries for Web, iOS, Android, Flutter, C++, and Unity. Firestore also supports traditional server-side development libraries using Node.js, Java, Go, Ruby, and PHP.
Security	Firestore seamlessly integrates with Firebase Authentication and Identity Platform, to enable customizable identity-based security access controls and enables data validation via a configuration language.
Multi-region replication	With automatic multi-region replication and strong consistency, your data is safe and has a 99.999% availability guarantee, even when disasters strike.
Datastore mode	Firestore supports the Datastore API. You won't need to make any changes to your existing Datastore apps, and you can expect the same performance characteristics and pricing with the added benefit of strong consistency. Existing Cloud Datastore databases will be automatically upgraded to Firestore starting in 2021.

Pricing

Cloud Firestore detailed pricing is available on our pricing page.

Feature	Price
Stored data	$0.18/GB
Bandwidth	Google Cloud pricing
Document writes	$0.18/100K
Document reads	$0.06/100K
Document deletes	$0.02/100K

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