Firestore in a Nutshell

#Google Cloud #Professional Data Engineer Certfication #Firestore #No-SQL #Database

Intro

This post is part of a series of posts with notes as I’m studying for Google’s Professional Data Engineer Certification.

This particular post covers Firestore in a nutshell.

Disclaimer

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Firestore

  • Similar to mongodb
  • Store data as documents
  • Rare to migrate to Bigtable (unlike Cloud SQL which may migrate to Spanner eventually)
  • Web devs. like it and it has easy integration for web/mobile use-cases