Firestore
Highly scalable and serverless NoSQL document database
Build mobile and web applications with a fully managed, document database that provides multi-region replication, virtually unlimited scalability, and industry-leading availability of up to 99.999% SLA.
New customers get $300 in free credits to spend on Firestore. All customers get 50,000 reads, 20,000 writes, 20,000 deletes, and 1 GB storage free per day, not charged against your credits.
Features
Firestore with MongoDB compatibility
Take advantage of MongoDB’s API portability along with Firestore’s differentiated serverless service and industry-leading capabilities for your demanding document database workloads. You can now use your existing MongoDB application code, drivers, and integrations, in addition to the open-source ecosystem of MongoDB integrations, to quickly build applications for common use cases. Learn more.
Serverless
Focus on your application development using a fully managed, serverless document database that effortlessly scales up or down to meet any demand, with no manual sharding, maintenance windows, or administrative downtime. Enjoy multi-region replication with strong consistency and virtually unlimited scalability without worrying about managing the underlying database infrastructure.
Gen AI functionality
Easily build generative AI applications with Firestore vector search, LangChain and Llamaindex. Firestore’s integration supports common patterns—Document loader for loading and storing information from documents, Vector Store, and Memory (such as Chat Messages Memory). You can also use turnkey extensions to integrate Firestore with popular AI services with a few clicks, enabling use cases such as; automated embedding generation, language translations, image classification, and more.
Powerful query engine
Firestore allows you to run sophisticated queries, including Vector Search, and ACID transactions against your JSON or BSON-compatible document data. This gives you more flexibility in the way you structure your data.
Real-time synchronization and offline mode
Built-in real-time synchronization and offline mode makes it easy to build multi-user, collaborative applications on mobile web, and IoT devices. This powers workloads consisting of live asset tracking, activity tracking, real-time analytics, media and product catalogs, communications, social user profiles, and gaming leaderboards.
Libraries for popular languages
Firestore databases support native Firestore, MongoDB, and Datastore drivers and SDKs. This means Firestore databases are accessible in your favorite client-side development runtimes like Web, iOS, Android, Flutter, C++, and Unity, allowing you to focus on application development. Firestore also supports traditional server-side development libraries using Node.js, Java, Go, Ruby, and PHP.
Multi-region replication
Firestore offers automatic multi-region replication with strong consistency and industry-leading high availability of up to 99.999% SLA. This ensures that your data is safe and available, even when disasters strike.
Security
Firestore seamlessly integrates with Cloud Identity and Access Management, Cloud Identity Platform, and Firebase Authentication, to enable customizable identity-based security access controls and enables data validation using a configuration language.
Firestore and Firebase integration
Firestore and Firebase are tightly integrated to provide a comprehensive backend solution for applications. Firebase serves as a platform offering various services, including authentication, hosting, and serverless functions, while Firestore is a NoSQL database within Firebase designed for scalable data storage and real-time synchronization.
Datastore mode
Firestore supports the Datastore API. You don'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.
How It Works
Firestore is a flexible, scalable database for mobile device, web, and server development from Firebase and Google Cloud. It's very easy to get started with Firestore and write rich and powerful applications. Learn best practices for building apps that use Firestore, including data location, document IDs, field names, indexes, read and write operations, and designing for scale.
Firestore is a flexible, scalable database for mobile device, web, and server development from Firebase and Google Cloud. It's very easy to get started with Firestore and write rich and powerful applications. Learn best practices for building apps that use Firestore, including data location, document IDs, field names, indexes, read and write operations, and designing for scale.
Common Uses
Mobile and web apps
Develop responsive mobile and web apps
For mobile and web app backends, Firestore acts as a powerful, managed database solution that directly addresses key modern mobile and web app requirements. Client-side SDKs (iOS, Android, Web) feature real-time updates and provide robust support with automatic data syncing, ensuring accessibility anytime, anywhere.
You can now significantly accelerate your build process and focus on delivering core application value to your users, rather than getting bogged down in complex backend infrastructure development and maintenance.
Learning resources
Develop responsive mobile and web apps
For mobile and web app backends, Firestore acts as a powerful, managed database solution that directly addresses key modern mobile and web app requirements. Client-side SDKs (iOS, Android, Web) feature real-time updates and provide robust support with automatic data syncing, ensuring accessibility anytime, anywhere.
You can now significantly accelerate your build process and focus on delivering core application value to your users, rather than getting bogged down in complex backend infrastructure development and maintenance.
Gaming
Build interactive, modern games
Modern games demand high-performance, flexible databases to power immersive player experiences. Firestore offers a robust, scalable, and durable document database, perfectly suited for managing critical persistent data such as user profiles, in-game inventories, game state, and marketplace listings. Its real-time capabilities ensure consistent and synchronized player experiences across all platforms and at any scale, allowing you to focus on creating compelling gameplay without worrying about database limitations.
Learning resources
Build interactive, modern games
Modern games demand high-performance, flexible databases to power immersive player experiences. Firestore offers a robust, scalable, and durable document database, perfectly suited for managing critical persistent data such as user profiles, in-game inventories, game state, and marketplace listings. Its real-time capabilities ensure consistent and synchronized player experiences across all platforms and at any scale, allowing you to focus on creating compelling gameplay without worrying about database limitations.
Generative AI
Build rich, gen AI apps
Build powerful generative AI applications and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures with Firestore vector search, LangChain and Llamaindex.
By leveraging Firestore as a scalable vector database, you can store embeddings and contextual data enabling efficient semantic search to retrieve relevant information based on user queries.
Learning resources
Build rich, gen AI apps
Build powerful generative AI applications and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures with Firestore vector search, LangChain and Llamaindex.
By leveraging Firestore as a scalable vector database, you can store embeddings and contextual data enabling efficient semantic search to retrieve relevant information based on user queries.
Personalization
Create personalized experiences
Deliver highly personalized experiences at scale with Firestore. This flexible document database enables effortless management of diverse user data from your key channels (CRM, Web, Mobile), seamlessly integrating profiles, preferences, and activities. Build powerful personalization pipelines that adapt and scale with your understanding of your users, driving engagement and growth.
Learning resources
Create personalized experiences
Deliver highly personalized experiences at scale with Firestore. This flexible document database enables effortless management of diverse user data from your key channels (CRM, Web, Mobile), seamlessly integrating profiles, preferences, and activities. Build powerful personalization pipelines that adapt and scale with your understanding of your users, driving engagement and growth.
Content management
Power content management systems
Deliver rich and dynamic content experiences across all platforms with Firestore. This powerful and scalable document database acts as a central hub for managing diverse content, including rich media metadata and complex textual data. Its flexible document model ensures consistent and efficient delivery of structured, metadata-rich content to your mobile and web applications, allowing you to scale your content library and user base without compromising performance or data integrity.
Learning resources
Power content management systems
Deliver rich and dynamic content experiences across all platforms with Firestore. This powerful and scalable document database acts as a central hub for managing diverse content, including rich media metadata and complex textual data. Its flexible document model ensures consistent and efficient delivery of structured, metadata-rich content to your mobile and web applications, allowing you to scale your content library and user base without compromising performance or data integrity.
Pricing
| How Firestore pricing works | Firestore’s pricing is based on the read and write operations conducted on your database, consumed storage, and network usage. Pricing varies based on the edition selected. Committed use discounts reduce the price further. | |
|---|---|---|
| Feature | Description | Price (USD) |
Operations | Provides comprehensive capabilities as a document database including a standard query engine, fluent SDKs, real-time and offline support, high availability, and a convenient serverless operational model with seamless autoscaling. In our serverless model, operations conducted in Standard edition are charged based on read, write and delete units. | |
Read units | Starting at $0.03 per 100,000 read units | |
Write units | Starting at $0.09 per 100,000 write units | |
Delete units | Starting at $0.01 per 100,000 delete units | |
Operations | Provides additional capabilities including MongoDB compatibility and an advanced query engine supporting a larger number of features and increased limits. In our serverless model, operations in Enterprise edition are charged based on read and write units. | |
Read units | Starting at $0.05 per 1 million read units (4 KB tranches) | |
Write units | Starting at $0.26 per 1 million write units (1 KB tranches) | |
Storage | Standard edition offers hybrid storage using both SSDs and HDDs. | Starting at $0.15 per GB/month |
Enterprise edition offers SSD storage for consistent performance in all utilization patterns. | Starting at $0.24 Per GB/month | |
Network | Ingress | Free |
Intra-region egress | Free | |
Inter-region egress | Starting at $0.01 per GB | |
Get full details on Firestore pricing across Standard and Enterprise editions.
How Firestore pricing works
Firestore’s pricing is based on the read and write operations conducted on your database, consumed storage, and network usage. Pricing varies based on the edition selected. Committed use discounts reduce the price further.
Operations
Provides comprehensive capabilities as a document database including a standard query engine, fluent SDKs, real-time and offline support, high availability, and a convenient serverless operational model with seamless autoscaling.
In our serverless model, operations conducted in Standard edition are charged based on read, write and delete units.
Read units
Starting at
$0.03
per 100,000 read units
Write units
Starting at
$0.09
per 100,000 write units
Delete units
Starting at
$0.01
per 100,000 delete units
Operations
Provides additional capabilities including MongoDB compatibility and an advanced query engine supporting a larger number of features and increased limits.
In our serverless model, operations in Enterprise edition are charged based on read and write units.
Read units
Starting at
$0.05
per 1 million read units (4 KB tranches)
Write units
Starting at
$0.26
per 1 million write units (1 KB tranches)
Storage
Standard edition offers hybrid storage using both SSDs and HDDs.
Starting at
$0.15
per GB/month
Enterprise edition offers SSD storage for consistent performance in all utilization patterns.
Starting at
$0.24
Per GB/month
Network
Ingress
Free
Intra-region egress
Free
Inter-region egress
Starting at
$0.01
per GB
Get full details on Firestore pricing across Standard and Enterprise editions.
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