Editions overview

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
Supports real-time and offline capabilities Yes
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
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    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.

    Pricing

    For information about Cloud Firestore editions pricing, see pricing pages for Enterprise edition and Standard edition.