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Firestore in Datastore mode documentation
Firestore in Datastore mode is a NoSQL document database built for automatic scaling, high performance, and ease of application development.
While the Datastore mode interface has many of the same features as traditional databases, as a NoSQL database it differs from them in the way it describes relationships between data objects.
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