# Google Cloud Firestore Reviews **Vendor:** Google **Category:** [Document Databases](https://www.g2.com/categories/document-databases) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 97 ## About Google Cloud Firestore Cloud Firestore is a NoSQL document database that lets you easily store, sync, and query data for your mobile and web apps - at global scale. ## Google Cloud Firestore Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **fast API integration** of Google Cloud Firestore, allowing effortless app connections and real-time updates. (1 reviews) - Users value the **scalability and wide service offerings** of Google Cloud Firestore, enhancing their application development experience. (1 reviews) - Users value the **flexibility** of Google Cloud Firestore, allowing for easy adaptation to various project needs. (1 reviews) - Users praise Google Cloud Firestore for its **commitment to innovation** , enhancing their experience with cutting-edge features and services. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **seamless integrations** of Google Cloud Firestore, enhancing efficiency with other Google products. (1 reviews) - Monitoring (1 reviews) - Pricing Competition (1 reviews) - Real-time Updates (1 reviews) - Scalability (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **robust security** and easy accessibility of Google Cloud Firestore, enhancing their data protection experience. (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find Google Cloud Firestore's pricing to be **quite expensive** once they need to scale beyond the free tier. (1 reviews) - Users find the **unclear pricing** of Google Cloud Firestore confusing and potentially expensive as usage increases. (1 reviews) ## Google Cloud Firestore Reviews ### 1. Fast, Serverless Firestore with Great Real-Time Features **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gudiya d. | Human Resources Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2026 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** The best thing that I like about Google cloud fire store is it is very fast I don't have to deal with server set up or the database. I can just plug my app and start the process and the real time saying is also a very good thing for building char features **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** One thing that I don't like about fireways is the pricing one pricing is a big one it's free to start but if you want to go above you will need to purchase done and it is bit expensive **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** Google cloud firestore have solved many problem for us it basically let's me be a one person developer team I can focus on building the figures what actually sayingstead of messing around with bacon in first and database the integration with firebase is very smooth and it helps me handle security rules and authentication in one place that makes my life I'll lot easier ### 2. Google Cloud Firestore is best service to store data. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vishnu P. | DevOps Engineer, Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 26, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** Firestore facilitates instantaneous data synchronisation, enabling modifications to be mirrored immediately amongst linked devices. Applications that need collaborative functionality and real-time updates may find this very helpful. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** There are certain limits with Firestore queries, particularly with sophisticated queries and sorting. It's critical to comprehend the query model and organise your data appropriately. **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** Because Firestore offers real-time updates, linked devices' apps may instantaneously reflect database changes. Applications requiring real-time data for communications, collaboration, or any other functionality that requires it will benefit from this ### 3. Seamless Data Management with Google Cloud Firestore **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anirban D. | Technical Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 06, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** Google Cloud Firestore has been a game-changer for my data storage needs. Its real-time database functionality is truly impressive, providing instant updates across devices. The scalability, user-friendly interface, and robust security make it a top choice. Continuous updates showcase Google's commitment to innovation. Whether for small projects or large-scale applications, Firestore excels, earning a solid 5-star recommendation for its reliability and performance. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** One issue arises from the automatic creation of indexes, especially challenging when dealing with dynamic data. Some client libraries exhibit a level of simplicity that might be considered basic.I think updating nasted json form firestore console need to be improved **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** As we were working with high data load and loads were also on a timeframe basis, we needed a database which can autoscale as ar the load, firestore datastore mode solved this issue effciently ### 4. Good storage solution platform **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vanaraj R. | Research Scientist , Higher Education, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** I like the data protection part and that it is easily accessible. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** No dislikes but the premium price is a bit high. **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have stored important academic and personal data securely and this has solved my storage problem. ### 5. Amazing offering at a really nice price but poor security means massive risk exposure **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Benjamin J. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** Google Cloud Firestore is a great product to develop with, we use JSON objects and arrays throughout our software - from memory structures and IndexedDBin our javascript to maps in our Java code (we predominantly use vanlila js for web, flutter for devices and Spring Boot for servers) - so the structures in Google Firestore were a natural extension of that and pricing and speed to implement made us think we were on a winner. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** We were hacked, and our number of reads spiked by literally billions of reads within a short period, our bill spiked by thousands of dollars and as we were unable to explain this to our stakeholders we had to shut down development and our jobs are less stable than before. We set up alerts and quotas on our API but the reads bypassed the api and so we were alerted when our bill showed up - were we to have our time again we would have found a way to set alerts on the Firevase reads itself but had run with the premise that reads would have been throuigh our apis Our security team advised us that the requirement to include the google credentials file in our Android app (so that app knows the end point to use) meant that our firestore endpoint was open for anyone to see, so we were relying on the rules to work. We were confident that that was ok and that having rules in place would mitigate these risks. What we experienced was a malicious agent for no gain of their own found a way to smash our service and drive our bill up. in case it helps anyone our rules are below. These did not work and suddenly we are facing a massive bill that has massively damaged our business units reputation within our organisation, We have (to date, it's been about 20 days since the attack was noted) received no useful assistance from Google tracking down how the attack worked, but our security team is guessing that either someone managed to pretend that their requests were originating from our domain. We use Microsoft authentication - our product was targetted at business clients - and had successfully tested security with non authenticated accounts and authenticated accounts outside our domain. service cloud.firestore { match /databases/{database}/documents { match /{document=**} { allow read, write: if request.auth != null && request.auth.token.email.matches('.*@["our domain"]); } } } **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scalable access to data that is used to run an app ### 6. Perfect Fit for small to large level Enterprises **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhishek S. | software engineer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 08, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** I truly like scalability of google cloud firestore as I have seen it scaling from 0 users to now 4 Milion users. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** Generaly their is nothing to dislike but sometime costing may push us to think twice but as we optimize our query we can also lower it down. **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** We store our user data, user activity report data, and user earning data in firestore in document format. We are able to server our query with low latency using google firestore . ### 7. Best Cloud Firestore ever saw! Gives amazing cloud features **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ADARSH F. | Partner, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 22, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** The most helpful thing of the software is feature. It is unimaginable to see this much feature. Google cloud firestore is on another level. I used it for my fmap website and results were amazing. It is better than AWS. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** The least favorite thing about the software is the support that i got from the company while trying to solve a bug. It have some limitations but ofcourse in paid plan you will get all the features **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** The main problem that Google Cloud Firestore is solving for me is the saving of my personal confidential data and providing a number of features. I used it for my website and it is really helpful for it and I can say it that it is also a part of success of me. I have also used other cloud firestore but the quality that this is providing is not matchable. Google is known for it's features and now I understand why! Really helpful ### 8. Managing retailer data with seamless integration in GCP **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Himanshu S. | Wordpress Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 03, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** What I love the most about Firestore is that it supports ACID transations and also it is hightly scalable that means it can automatically scale up when the workload is really high without breaking a sweat. Apart from this there are various other features such as it integrates really well with GCp services. Also once implemenmted, it is easy to use. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** The kind of queries wqe can run against it are limited due to the fact that all the queries are served using previously built indexes. **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** Google Cloud Firestore effectively helps dealing with the data management challenges by providing a scalable, NoSQL database solution. Its real-time syncing and offline support are invaluable for managing retailer data, ensuring seamless access and updates across distributed systems. This benefits us by enhancing data consistency, enabling efficient real-time analytics, and improving overall system reliability in a dynamic retail environment. ### 9. Review of Google Cloud Firestore **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jay Kishan G. | Associate devOps engineer , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 22, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** *google cloud firestore give best analytical NOSQl sync connectivity for better reach . *Its easy to adopt and modify . *It can be use for multiple purpose like web and mobile data . *It's give instant analytic result according to user. *It is easy to attach with services to Firestore and handy to manage it's configurations and it is quite user friendly especially for beginners. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** *User interface should be easy. *Google CLI should give easy access to Firestore interface. *Customer support should be Techincally correct. **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** I work as a DevOps engineer and for getting data in structured and having better analytics as per our bussiness requirements , Firestore solves all kind of problems . i Started as fresher for all this services and i found out that its easy to work with Firestore ,it provide great integration with firebase .The best thing is that Offline support and real time support with multiple documents and resources available which makes it handy . ### 10. Easy to setup, best for not-so-conplex projects **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ishaan M. | Web Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** * It is schema-less, so development is very rapid and flexible * easy to learn and implement basic queries * lots of community support * seamless integration with web (vanialla JS) or SDKs for NodeJS, Android apps etc. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** * Pricing not suited if you have a large number of documents (records) to store. * Queries get more and more costlier with complexity * Harder to author complex queries; **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used Cloud Firestore for mulitple projects, ranging from Form Maker applications to educational content storage and sharing apps. Our project requirements mandated that some of the data entities are essentially schema-less as the structure of data to be stored was highly dynamic and often nested. Using cloud firestore made it very esay to implement and prototype such ideas. ### 11. Review of Google cloud firestore **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aniket S. | Assistant System Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 22, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** Google cloud firestore is a nice tool which is very useful for data analysis which provides good analytical infrastructure. It is also useful for machine learning along with cloud computing. It provides high performance, secure and reliable access in cloud computing and in data analysis. The managing use, scalable nature along with security it the best thing I like in it. It also made the documents in the database easily accessible. These are the things I mostly like in Google cloud firestore. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** The dislike the most is the documents size limit that is 1MB and that is very less. For full search there is no support. These are the few things I dislike in it. I think this can be made more better so that it can be useful for big data also. **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helping to solve machine learning and data analysis problems ### 12. Google Cloud is better than any other cloud service!! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adarsh K. | Freelance: Lead Generation & Full stack developer | Prospecting | List Building | Pre-Sales Research, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 04, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** Google cloud firestore gives you more cloud features and the storage it provides. I have used other cloud services as well but the service and the security and maintenece it provides us unimaginable. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** There is nothing to be not liked about this software. This is a small problem of this cloud firestore is of support. There is support but thatn's not big problem. Beside this everything is awesome! **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** Offline access: Users expect their apps to work even when they're offline. Firestore's offline support allows apps to store and access data locally, providing a consistent experience even without an internet connection. Always up-to-date: With real-time updates, users can always see the latest information in your app. Faster performance: Firestore's efficient data storage and retrieval can lead to faster loading times and a smoother app experience. ### 13. Simple to set up, ideal for simpler projects Utilize Platform to Create Serverless Applications **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manish S. | Security Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** The most appealing aspect of GCP for me is that it offers fault tolerance, scalability, high availability, and read replicas based on various services. Moreover, it provides the option to build serverless applications, which solely rely on Google Cloud for management and don't require us to provision any infrastructure. Because it lacks schemas, development is incredibly quick and adaptable. simple to understand and use for fundamental queries. plenty of support from the community. smooth interaction with Node.js, Android apps, and SDKs for the web (vanialla JS). **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** There isn't really anything about the product that one can be unhappy with. **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** In addition to developing public APIs, I have deployed my web apps using GCP. Google Cloud tackles issues with data management, cost effectiveness, innovation, and scalability. It helps users and businesses by offering a platform for effective data handling and flexible scaling. ### 14. Scalable and Robust database **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sandeep D. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** Google cloud firestore is easy to configure and i love its auto indexing feature, which allows fast searching. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** Its way to difficult to query data based on multiple subcollections properties. No option to auto generateId or update/create timestamps. **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** Google cloud firestore service doesn't charge for storing data but for retriving data which serves our purpose as we need to store data freuqently then retriving which saved lots of $$ for us. ### 15. Easy to setup with all cloud needs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhishek L. | Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** Google cloud provides variety of services. Since, it belongs to google one can rely on data protection. GCP provides good scalability and high availability options. Wide range of services that gives good competition to its peers. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** Google cloud has smaller customer footprint than compared to its counterparts AWS and Azure. Also, services pricing could be better. The documentation needs to be more simple. **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** It provides good scalability options along with high availability. One can rely on its computing capacity and host their high traffic applications. ### 16. The experience was good. Liked how easy it was to navigate and use the service. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ayush singh s. | Infra Managed Service Associate , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** Accessibility and synchronisation. Being able to access and sync the data accross multiple devices effortlessly. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** Not something that i absolutely hate but the cost is a bit on the higher end. If google can somehow manage to lower it's pricing, it's an absolute beast of a tool. **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was able to integrate my app with firestore to store and access data in real time without much latency. ### 17. Good GCF ! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vaibhav N. | Mechanical Design Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 22, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** The best part of the GCF is easily accessible through mobile and quech the data web access. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** User interface can be made better friendly. **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** Collecting data and writing query for the above database. ### 18. effective used for fullstack developer **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Akshay K. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** i moustly like storing systm like file store or any data store in good way . and also i like notification trigger is verry nice and also is give free software deploye. It is very easy to implimention. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** i am not much dislike . firebase is very good for developer for implimenting any strimming and store system but some dislike it is costly **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** helping in notification impimentation ### 19. Google Cloud Firestore: Scalable and Real-Time Data Management for Efficient Development **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Purvesh G. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 07, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** As a developer, what I like best about Google Cloud Firestore is its seamless scalability and real-time data synchronisation. It allows me to handle high volumes of data effortlessly and provides real-time updates across multiple clients, making it easier to build efficient and collaborative applications. The flexibility and ease of use offered by Firestore greatly simplify backend development tasks, enabling me to focus on delivering reliable and responsive user experiences. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** One aspect I find slightly challenging with Google Cloud Firestore is the cost structure. While Firestore offers excellent scalability and performance, the pricing model can be complex to navigate, especially for applications with unpredictable or fluctuating data usage. It requires careful monitoring and planning to ensure cost efficiency, particularly when dealing with heavy read or write operations. **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** Google Cloud Firestore solves the problem of managing and synchronizing data across multiple clients and platforms in real-time. This benefits me as a developer by providing a scalable and reliable solution for storing and retrieving data. It eliminates the need for complex infrastructure management and allows me to focus more on developing features and functionalities, saving time and effort. The real-time updates feature of Firestore ensures that data is always up to date across all connected clients, enabling seamless collaboration and enhancing the user experience. Overall, Firestore simplifies data management and enhances the efficiency of backend development. ### 20. Google Cloud Firestore Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mickey V. | Team Lead, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** Firestore offers to the users authentication and security features, allowing users to control access to there data. user can used other services or have applications hosted on Google Cloud Platform. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** Firestore not support all type of queries, so main limitation is this. data changes is not immediately reflected in all instances. And Google Cloud Firestore has Complex hierarchical data structures **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** Firestore supports a limited set of data types compared to traditional relational databases. they need to improve And add all data types. so user an used it as well as it is not supports all type of queries, they have to update and give access for all queries to user. ### 21. Anjani Dubey Active User **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anjani D. | Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 22, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** I love the querying data in mobile facility. Specially the notification capabilities. I have recommended my friends and colleagues after using it for the very first time. Recommending it the users reading this **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** A little expensive but totally worth it and use it correctly. **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** Storage requirements ### 22. Google Cloud Firebase gives excellent performance **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ikbir S. | Full Stack Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 25, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** I have being used that from a long time, and that gives me a better performance and enhanced my performance. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** I have a little issue with customer care support team, except all things are great **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me in query optimisation ### 23. Google Cloud Store for growing data processing **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sakharam R. | Data Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 29, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** Its scaleing power with high availability and security **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** Nothing special I want to mention here pricing is good every one can utilise this platform **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its really good for incremental data storage.easy to access with high processing power ### 24. Best place for store and syn data at one place **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dipak P. | Data Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** Easy to use for beginners as well, implementing any idea smoothly. Integration witheebpage and app very easily.number of additional features get. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** Takes time to synch need to use customer support. **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** Storing tons of data in backend and visually representation to easily. ### 25. Pretty awesome **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ameen K. | Business Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 11, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** Easy to use and user friendly interfaces pretty good implementation wise and customer support is also great **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** The costing of the google cloud firestore is on higher side compare to others **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is helpful for me to store the data ### 26. Good NoSql database, also good for beginners **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gourav S. | Open Source Contributor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 10, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** Easy to use and great documentation. Been using for 3 years now. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** Initially could be tricky to setup and initialization of the firebase instance. **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** Great GCP base NoSql database with nice way and ui for viewing data. ### 27. One of the best NoSQL document DB **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mansur P. | Senior Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** A powerful infrastructure with multi region replication. Integration with google cloud services. Pay as you go **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** May need bigger community support is needed. **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** With pay as you go saving Budget. ### 28. The best in market DBMS!!! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** It is very fast and precise in terms of working on storing data to deploy. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** Nothing so far, it has been only a few months since we started using it. **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** Since we work on huge Data cleaning and processing, we look for something that offers a seamless user experience. Google Cloud Firestore does that extrordinarly. ### 29. The best way to get up and running **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rahul P. | Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 30, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** Firestore is the default way for us to build apps as an early stage startup. I love it's speed, robust client libraries, and ability to quickly add data (without a schema) **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** The lack of a schema makes some data modeling scenarios difficult. This is an issue with all NoSQL solutions **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able to quickly add collections and data to prototype and build experiences at our company ### 30. Easy to use **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 26, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** Having an ecosystem where I can find packages to connect to Firestone. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** Cloud console is big confusing compare to the competition like aws **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ability to store the data in any desired region I want with the support of document database. ### 31. Google Cloud Firestore is user-friendly with its simple setup **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** Google Cloud Firestore is user-friendly with its simple setup,real-time data synchronization, and seamless scalability. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** Nothing as such as of now but yes indexing challenges, transaction size restrictions etc. **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** Google Cloud Firestore solves data management challenges by offering a scalable, real-time NoSQL database. ### 32. Google cloud get the best out of in one place **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dilip T. | Software developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 03, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** Google Cloud's strengths lie in its scalability, wide service offerings, global infrastructure, security, integration with Google products, competitive pricing, and commitment to innovation. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** I don't have personal opinions or dislikes **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ease if build and publishing the applications/products ### 33. Atrocious **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** It's fast and there are relatively few outages. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** Firestore Security Rules are poorly architected, counterintuitive, difficult to debug and poorly documented. Reference type fields are useless for us, requiring duplicate data everywhere. Data import/export requires convoluted steps. The client library syntax changed, making half of the examples on the web obsolete. **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** It let me forgo in house database maintenance. ### 34. Database supporting the Backend **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** João R. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 06, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** The flexibility without losing availability and within a short time of response. Between the amount of single indexes and the ability to have multi field index, the data can be queried anyway we want. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** We have to imagine the perfect model upfront for the queries we want. Updating all the data, deleting a big collection, or creating new indexes for big collections take a long time. **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** It remove completely the operations side of deploying and mantaining the database. On top of that, scalling is given for free. We do not need to care about peaks of usage, the service handles that. ### 35. Firestore Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 27, 2022 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** Google Cloud Firestore is a robust and reliable NoSQL database well-suited for many applications. Its real-time synchronization and scaling capabilities make it a strong choice for developers looking to build modern, data-driven apps. It is easy to store, sync, and query data for your mobile, web, and server-side applications using Firestore. Its real-time synchronization makes it ideal for building collaborative apps or implementing real-time data visualization. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** Nothing in particular. Although Google Cloud Firestore is a newer product, it already offers many features and integrations with other Google Cloud services. However, it may not yet have the same level of feature maturity as some of its more established competitors. That being said, Google Cloud Firestore is continuously being updated and improved, so its feature set is likely to expand and improve over ti **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** Firestore serves as the central database for one of my projects and is helping me effectively store and synchronize data across multiple clients and devices in real time. Its NoSQL nature has made it easy for me to implement new requirements without worrying about database design. ### 36. Horizontal Scaling and Powerful Query Features **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** AjayKumar V. | Software Development Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 01, 2022 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** Database Scaling is very good because of the serverless solutions and gets the real-time database to compare to other competitors, Provide offline support and real-time data updated on-device iOS and Android. our data replica is stored in multi-country, so no need to worry about data, and GCF offers ACID transactions. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** it's expensive while scaling the products compare to other, for full-text search we need to use third-party solutions and are not able to take backup in real-time DB. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Firestore:** Reduce the pricing because while scaling the product it is too much expensive for products. **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** There are many features there. 1. one of the main problem solutions is real-time data to get in-app (Android and IOS) devices. 2. Database scaling is very easy in products but expensive. 3. data security is a replica there. ### 37. The obvious choice when making a JAMstack application. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Wholesale | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** Easy integration with firebase auth, and cloud functions (which have firestore triggers). It also has a client for pretty much any programming language you are going to be using (except rust)! **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** Firebase rules could be better, lacks full text search. You have to use Algolia or Elastic (I prefer Algolia). Algolia is super easy to set up and has a very generous free tier. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Firestore:** Document databases have come very far. You can run ACID (atomic) transactions in Firestore? **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's super easy to set up a small MVP solution for any problem you're facing. Not having to worry about managing the DB manually gives me a lot of time to focus on architecting and developing my systems. ### 38. Makes creating a NoSQL database as simple as possible **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vignesh A. | App Developer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 09, 2021 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** 1. They have simplified a lot of things by using SDKs. Their SDKs saves a lot time. 2. Documentation is very easy to understand and the code snippets really helps. 3. Scalability in terms of read operations is excellent. 4. Adding SDKs to android apps is straight forward. 5. Integrates with Google Cloud Functions. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** Currently, Cloud Firestore doesn't have a native flutter SDK which would have been good. And there are also some limitaitons on number of writes which if removed would help scale in terms of write operations also. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Firestore:** Read Google's cookbooks as they explain implementing a complex feature in step-by-step approach. **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. We use Cloud Firestore to create our billing software. 2. We have a digital card product where users can get a digital card in minutes. Implementing this with Firestore was very easy and fast(It took less than a week). 3. Currently, we are using it for our client's works, which is a dynamic website. ### 39. Cloud Db with Coud Firestore. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** MAHEK V. | Computer Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** -Its Opens source NoSQL Document Oriented Database. -Easy to create and Initialise in any web app. -Can monitor the read-write data stats in the firebase console. -Can use it as a real-time database. -Supports a wide range of data types. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** Reading a large document takes more turnaround time. The individual documents could not contain more than 100 fields. Can not have nested documents inside the document to more the three levels. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Firestore:** I would recommend using Google Cloud Firestore as Firestore DB for the web, mobile app it optimism the durability and scalability of the application. Reading and writing the data is more secure and faster. **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** It fills in as a NoSQL Database. Real-time data access, update, delete. Free and open source to use the alternative of sql. ### 40. It's good for storing messages and small scale apps. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Suman D. | Mobile Application Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2022 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** Realtime database out of the box and onSnapshot listener in client side. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** Filtering and sorting and indexing as a whole. **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was storing lot of chat data of one to one and groups. The realtime on snapshot method actually helped to get that. I have used rnFirebase for persisting it to get offline support. ### 41. This out of the box reactive database helped us to create a collaboration tool for educators. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tharanga H. | Solutions Architect, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** Very easy to start with, robust, performant, has ample documentations, works well with Angular along with Angularfire wrapper. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** Can't do complex queries. So we used is along with a Mongo DB to support advanced querying, we used Firebase only for the reactive part. **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** We developed a realtime collaboration app, more like a drawing tool, for educators. Firebase's reactive nature helped us achieving this. ### 42. Could implement better database UI **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arul s. | Graduate Research Student, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** Quick accessibility and better learning curve comparing other web apps. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** The authorization application rules could have been much better versatile **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Firestore:** If you are going through a startup database management choice firestore is a one of the best places to begin with. **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using it for authorization and database management. ### 43. Amazing tool to manage a reactive database **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cristian T. | Full Stack Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** Definitely the best part of using firestore is the use of reactive data, that your app can find out at any time when any record is added, edited or deleted in your database is what makes it really different and comes to help many developers to create better applications and innovate the traditional way of doing things. The free fee they give you per day is also too useful, if you are simply developing an app and that application is not going to consume many resources, but you want to implement firestore in your project, it is really useful to use the Blaze plan The documentation is a beautiful experience to read, it is very well explained if you are making web applications **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** There are certain libraries to implement firestore in different programming Frameworks, it would be good if the firestore developers themselves had their own SDK to implement firestore. Generally in these external libraries we pass the keys of our database and that generates some insecurity because I do not know if they are trustworthy or not these external libraries that are usually used **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Firestore:** start using firestore instead of using firebase, try to take a course on how to model data correctly in firestore since if you have poor data modeling your consumption can be really excessive and you can pay a lot of money per month and think that firestore doesn't is the correct solution that you need **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** To be able to create an instant messaging feature within my application, also to be able to implement a notification handling feature ### 44. Disappointing **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** Setting up Auth was easy. Getting a collection and documents was pretty easy. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** Limitations on queries. I tried to create a simple chat app where users can subscribe to any number of channels. I had a collection for messages that had a attribute for channel. If I had a user that had seven different channels, I had to make seven different queries to get the messages for that channel. I was using useEffect in React and on a couple of occasions quickly consumed the 50K reads. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Firestore:** For anything other than a very simple app, you'll need another solution. **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was trying to quickly stand up an app. The benefits I received is that I understood it was better to create my own infrastructure using Postgres and Node on a cloud provider. I subsequently read stories about nightmare billing scenarios. ### 45. Great product but a bit rough around the edges **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** I like the ease of use as a NoSQL store coupled with realtime capabilities that's highly scalable and managed. The mental model of how the database works maps very closely to Google Cloud Datastore **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** Some of the client libraries are a bit rough around the edges which is getting a lot better. I found a bug and reported it for what I think should be a pretty common use case, but that was when it was still in beta and not GA. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Firestore:** Make sure that you need NoSQL and the features of Cloud Firestore before you jump into it. **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're trying to allow users to have creative ways to flexibly store their data and map that data to a database with realtime capabilities. ### 46. Front End Dev's Best Friend **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** Easy to set up authentication! (God send) Also firing up a NoSql DB quickly, implementation is pretty straight forward and you can write cloud functions all in JS to make updates if you want to keep it off the front end. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** It's pretty new and just coming out of beta, so there is a lack of resources at the moment. Front End Masters just recently did a great workshop on it. **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** Setting up more than just a prototype. This can actually be a scalable product and no worries about costs and constantly working with dev ops on dumb little stuff. ### 47. Easy to learn **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Greg B. | Floor installer, Construction, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** Deploying React applications literally could not be easier. Authentication is easy to implement, and the database is super easy to use. Real-time database is super fast. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** Can't think of a single draw back. I love the speed and simplicity. There is a learning curve, but that applies to anything. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Firestore:** Do it **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can quickly and easily deploy a demo app for a remote client. I use the real time database for a few of my apps and it's blazing fast. ### 48. My experience with Google Cloud Firestore has been exceptional and easy to use. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Emily N. | Receptionist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 12, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** The upsides of using Google Firestore was the simplicity. It was so easy to use, and when I struggled the first time, customer service helped me immediately. Wonderful service and I’d recommend to anyone. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** There’s not much that I dislike about Google Firestore. One thing that I found was tricky was creating indexes. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Firestore:** Great to store extra data! Easy to use, not complex. Great support system **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** It’s a secure data store, and it can hold so much for work. ### 49. Google Cloud Firestore Easy Product **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shelbie S. | Consultant , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** I love the Google Cloud Firestore database because it is a time-saving cloud-based service that allows me to access my information on multiple devices in a seamless way. I travel a lot for work so it's super convenient that you are able to access the app without a wifi connection. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** I haven't found anything I dislike about this product so far! **What problems is Google Cloud Firestore solving and how is that benefiting you?** I haven't found anything I dislike about this product yet! ### 50. Great product, still testing to see if it’s better than real-time database **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firestore?** What I like best about the firestore is that it still maintains the real-time database aspects of having real-time updates and data, while being able to be a bit more flexible with your information. For example, now you can have arrays inside of your node. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firestore?** What I dislike about firestore is that it’s a bit overkill, for example to grab a whole collection inside of a custom promise function you have to set a callback when previously if you grabbed all the records from the real-time database that was it. 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