In addition to Datastore, Google now offers a similar service called Firestore as part of the mobile backend as a service (Baas) suite Firebase. Firestore shares much of its underlying infrastructure with Datastore, although it targets different use cases. As a result, there is a large overlap in the behavior and capabilities of Datastore and Firestore, although the differences are very significant.
Google Cloud Firestore
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