Firestore editions overview

This page describes Firestore editions and its key features. 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 (Preview): builds on the Standard edition and offers additional capabilities including MongoDB compatibility and a new advanced query engine supporting 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
Document Size Limits 1 MiB 4 MiB
Supports Firestore with MongoDB compatibility No Yes
Supports Firestore in Native mode server-side, web, and mobile SDKs Yes
Observability
  • Key Visualizer
  • Query Explain
  • Query Insights
  • Key Visualizer
  • Query Explain
  • Query Insights
Data protection
  • Scheduled backups
  • Point-in-time recovery
  • Scheduled backups
  • Point-in-time recovery
    • Encryption
    • Google-owned and Google-managed encryption key
    • Customer-managed encryption keys
    • Google-owned and 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

    What you need to do

    If you haven't selected an edition for your Firestore database, it's automatically upgraded to Standard edition with no changes required on your part. If you want to create a new Firestore Enterprise edition database, follow the steps outlined in Create a Firestore with MongoDB compatibility database.

    Pricing

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