GCP – Announcing general availability of Firestore with MongoDB compatibility

At Cloud Next ’25, we announced the preview of Firestore with MongoDB compatibility, empowering developers to build cost-effective, scalable, and highly reliable apps on Firestore’s serverless database using a familiar MongoDB-compatible API. Today, we’re announcing that Firestore with MongoDB compatibility is now generally available.

With this launch, the 600,000 active developers within the Firestore community can now use existing MongoDB application code, drivers, and tools, as well as the open-source ecosystem of MongoDB integrations with Firestore’s distinguished serverless service. Firestore provides benefits such as multi-region replication with strong consistency, virtually unlimited scalability, industry-leading high availability with an up to 99.999% SLA, single-digit milliseconds read performance, integrated Google Cloud governance, and a cost-effective pay-as-you-go pricing model. 

Firestore with MongoDB compatibility is attracting significant customer interest from diverse industries, including financial services, healthcare, retail, and manufacturing. We’re grateful for the engagement and opportunity this afforded to prioritize features that enable key customer use cases. For instance, a prominent online retail company sought to migrate their product catalog from another document database to Firestore with MongoDB compatibility to maximize scalability and availability. To support this migration, the customer maximized new capabilities like unique indexes to guarantee distinct universal product identifiers. The customer is excited to migrate their production traffic to Firestore with MongoDB compatibility now that it’s generally available.

You can learn more about how to get started at our Firestore with MongoDB compatibility page.

What’s new in Firestore with MongoDB compatibility

Based on direct customer feedback during the preview, we introduced new capabilities to Firestore with MongoDB compatibility, including expanded support for the Firestore with MongoDB compatibility API, enhanced enterprise readiness, and access from both Firebase and Google Cloud. Let’s take a closer look. 

1. Expanded support for Firestore with MongoDB compatibility API and query language

Firestore with MongoDB compatibility API and query language now supports over 200 capabilities. Developers can now create richer applications by leveraging new stages and operators that enable joining data across collections, data analysis within buckets, and advanced querying capabilities including arrays, sets, arithmetic, type conversion, and bitwise operations. We also added support for creating indexes directly from the Firestore with MongoDB compatibility API, including the ability to create unique indexes that ensure distinct field values across documents within a collection. Furthermore, the Firestore Studio console editor now features a new JSON viewer and a data export tool. You can find a comprehensive list of Firestore with MongoDB compatibility capabilities in the documentation.

2. Built for the enterprise

We have built Firestore with MongoDB compatibility to meet the needs of the enterprise, including new disaster recovery, change data capture, security, and observability features.

For disaster recovery, we’ve integrated Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR) to complement existing scheduled backups. This helps you recover from human errors, such as accidental data deletion, by enabling version control to rollback back at any point in time from the past seven days. We’ve also introduced database clones, allowing you to create an isolated copy of your database for staging, development, or analytics from any point-in-time recovery snapshot. Furthermore, we’ve incorporated managed export and import, enabling you to create a portable copy of your Firestore data in Cloud Storage for archival and other regulatory purposes.

For change data capture, trigger support has been added, enabling the configuration of server-side code to respond to document creation, updates, or deletions within your collections. This facilitates the replication of Firestore data changes to other services, such as BigQuery.

Regarding security, Private Google Access has been implemented, providing secure access from in-perimeter Google Cloud services with a private IP address, to a Firestore with MongoDB compatibility database. This connection option is available with no additional cost.

In terms of observability, Firestore with MongoDB compatibility now supports new metrics within a Firestore usage page. This simplifies the identification of MongoDB compatibility API calls that contribute to cost and traffic. This observability feature augments existing capabilities like query explain and query insights to help optimize usage.

3. Broader accessibility through Firebase in addition to Google Cloud

Finally, you can now access Firestore with MongoDB compatibility alongside all of your favorite developer services in Firebase, as well as in Google Cloud. This means you can manage Firestore with MongoDB compatibility from both the Firebase and Google Cloud consoles, and their respective command-line interfaces (CLI).

We’re thrilled to see what you’ll be able to achieve using Firestore with MongoDB compatibility. Get started today with Firestore with MongoDB compatibility—now generally available as part of Firestore Enterprise edition. To get started, create a new Firestore Enterprise edition database with MongoDB compatibility. There are no upfront fees and a free tier is available for all Firestore customers.