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Hi there! One thing you might consider is using a function to replicate your Firestore data to BigQuery, depending on the value the latter would add. (Very fast OLAP; I'm a big fan…

Hi there. :) I'm an engineer on the Cloud Firestore team. I can't speak to if or when we'll be able to remove this restriction, but please know that the folks working on this (like…

Cloud Spanner is also relational. :) (Fellow GCPer.)

An export is one component of a backup solution. :) Scheduling is another ( https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/solutions/schedul... ). (Checking restores is critical, too; …

Is there anything we could be doing to serve you better?

a) Cloud Firestore supports transactions across the entire database. You can learn more about them here: https://cloud.google.com/firestore/docs/manage-data/transact... . b) Given …

Cloud Firestore (the next generation of Cloud Datastore) removes those limitations. https://cloud.google.com/firestore/docs/manage-data/transact... It also supports the Cloud Datas…

Hey there--I'm an engineer on the Cloud Datastore team. I'd love to know more about what your needs are if you're willing to share.

This (fantastic) paper is cited in the Google Megastore paper [1] and we actually use the term "entity group" in our product [2] indirectly because of it. Pat Helland is always wor…

Have a look at https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/ipv6 . (Disclaimer: I work on GCP, albeit not on networking stuff.)

Only because this question has been asked multiple times at TGIF (regular all-hands meeting).

That's not true. Anyone has access to 20% time, the question is just whether or not it makes sense for individual people. Source: I work here and take advantage of 20% time.

Heh. :) One technicality: DynamoDB's pricing is based on throughput, as you know, but it's provisioned throughput. (You manage your capacity unit allocations yourself, at least tha…

I can't speak to the SDK parts, but take a look at Firebase's suite more broadly. :) Viz a viz Cognito, check out Authentication and the Realtime Database in particular.

Firebase's Realtime Database does this, too. https://firebase.google.com/pricing/ (Disclosure: I work on Cloud Datastore, which is another Google Cloud product; it, too, does prici…

As you noted earlier, Megastore has a schema and we don't, so we have our own index implementation, yes. :)

Perhaps I've misunderstood you, but I'm pretty sure cross-partition (I assume you mean cross-entity-group in our terms) transactions are in fact consistent (not totally sure what y…

Again, neat stuff, but that's not what this link claims: * The first serverless database * The first active-active multi-cloud database * The first strongly-consistent multi-region…

I'm familiar with both; what disappoints me is the claim of novelty here with respect to autoscaling. That's just not true. To quote you: "A serverless system must scale dynamicall…

:) Here's a paper with which you might already be familiar, but it's one of the citations for the Megastore paper: http://adrianmarriott.net/logosroot/papers/LifeBeyondTxns.pd... .…

We also have transactions [1], compound indexes [2] and multi-region replication [3]. I'm not sure what defines a "full-blown" database, but that much is true. [1] https://cloud.go…

Datastore runs on top of Megastore [1]. You can find out more about our data model here [2], but it's definitely not limited to key-value data. Our end users don't have to think mu…

(Disclosure: I work on Google's Cloud Datastore.) This looks super neat, and I can't wait to learn more about it, but just for the record: I'm pretty sure this isn't the first serv…

GAE gives at least a year after deprecation before turning off a feature. https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/deprecations/ (I work on Google Cloud and on Datastore, which is b…

Google Cloud Storage (as mentioned) for storage, Google App Engine for PaaS. :) (I work on Cloud, specifically Datastore.)