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This page describes Cloud Firestore editions and its key features.
Cloud Firestore is available in the following editions:
Standard edition: provides a comprehensive suite of capabilities as
a document database including fluent SDKs for a large number of programming
languages, real-time and offline support, high availability in single and
multi-region configurations, and a convenient serverless operation model
with seamless autoscaling.
Enterprise edition: provides MongoDB
compatibility and a new query engine that supports a larger number
of features and increased limits.
Editions features
The following table summarizes the features available for each edition:
Standard
Enterprise
Query Engine
Standard
Advanced
Supports Cloud Firestore in Native mode server-side, web, and mobile
SDKs
Yes
event
Supports real-time and offline capabilities
Yes
event
Supports Cloud Firestore with MongoDB
compatibility
No
Yes
Observability
Key Visualizer
Query Explain
Query Insights
Query Explain
Query Insights
Data protection
Scheduled backups
Point-in-time recovery
Scheduled backups
Point-in-time recovery
Encryption
Google-managed encryption key
Customer-managed encryption keys
Google-managed encryption key
Customer-managed encryption keys
Storage
Hybrid storage (SSD & HDD)
SSD
Committed Use Discounts
20% for 1 year; 40% for 3 years
20% for 1 year; 40% for 3 years
Document Size Limits
1 MiB
4 MiB
What you need to do
If you haven't selected an edition for your Cloud Firestore database, it's
automatically upgraded to Standard edition with no changes required on your
part. If you want to create a new Cloud Firestore Enterprise edition database,
follow the steps outlined in Create a Cloud Firestore with MongoDB compatibility database.
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