User:Xephyr826/Cloud Firestore

Firestore
Developer(s)	Google Inc.
Initial release	October 2017; 7 years ago
Platform	Google Cloud Platform
Type	Document-oriented database
License	Proprietary
Website	cloud.google.com/firestore/

Firestore is a NoSQL document database built for automatic scaling, high performance, and ease of application development^[1]^[2]. Firestore is available through Firebase and Google Cloud Platform^[3].

Main features

Some of Firestore's main features include^[4]:

Managed database that automatically scales up and down
Live synchronization
Offline mode
ACID transactions
Multi-region replication
Client libraries for:
- Web, iOS, Android, Flutter C++, Unity, Node.js, Java, Go, Ruby, and PHP

Datastore mode

Cloud Firestore is the next major version of Cloud Datastore. Cloud Firestore in Datastore mode makes Firestore backwards-compatible with the Cloud Datastore API and client libraries^[5].

History

October 5, 2017, Firebase announces public beta of Cloud Firestore^[6].

January 31, 2019, Google Cloud Platform announces general availability release of Cloud Firestore^[7].

References

[1] ttps://cloud.google.com/firestore/docs

[2] ttps://db-engines.com/en/system/Google+Cloud+Firestore

[3] ttps://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

[4] ttps://cloud.google.com/firestore#all-features

[5] ttps://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/firestore-or-datastore

[6] ttps://firebase.googleblog.com/2017/10/introducing-cloud-firestore.html

[7] ttps://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/announcing-cloud-firestore-general-availability-and-updates

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