Using Cloud Firestore in Datastore Mode | App Engine standard environment for Python 2 | Google Cloud

Firestore is a NoSQL document database built for automatic scaling, high performance, and ease of application development. It is the newest version of Datastore and introduces several improvements over Datastore. Because Firestore in Datastore mode is optimized for server use cases and for App Engine, we recommend using Firestore in Datastore mode for databases that will be used primarily by App E

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...provides a query engine and transactional storing with a simple API, all running on Google's scalable infrastructure. The Python interface includes a data modelling API and a SQL-like query language called GQL, making developing scalable data-backed apps as easy as with simple web hosting.