Google Cloud Firestore NoSQL database is in GA
Paying Firestore user here.<p>1. Disappointing that it has gone to GA without providing proper search (after a long beta). Can anybody explain why a service run by the worlds #1 search company continues to point users to third party services if you want to implement a basic text search in a database? I genuinely don&#x27;t understand that.<p>2. Feature requests (or complaints) re backup, queries and documentation are not new. Nor are the answers (or excuses) we see here, which revolve around scalability and (until now) being in beta. BUT all users I have ever heard say they use the product for speed &amp; ease of setup &amp; convenience - for MVPs, not for massive googlesque data. It almost feels like the product market fit is not quite right. So, forgive my technical ignorance here, but worst case scenario, why not provide the features with the caveat that they are slow or expensive or won&#x27;t work above a certain size of db? Isn&#x27;t half a solution better than no solution?<p>The database and whole Google&#x2F;Firebase app suite thing has some strong points. But to be frank, and I&#x27;m sorry if I&#x27;m being dismissive of hard work and technical wonders here, from the perspective of a customer and outside observer, a number of things smell quite off.