# Firebase Firestore

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Firebase Firestore and 7 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended for realtime queries, easy setup and lower cost than Postgres for some apps. Critics say costs climb at scale and querying is limited.

## What people warn about

- Costs add up at scale (2 comments): "All managed services like cloud datastore, firestore all tend to accure lots of costs if you've good size app." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47540738)) "It's very bad to search stuff, or have structured database, also it costs a lot" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46906092))
- Weak querying and search (2 comments): "It's very bad to search stuff, or have structured database, also it costs a lot" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46906092)) "its querying was sorely lacking" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46742813))
- Teams migrate off to Postgres or SQLite (2 comments): "Firestore is an acquired taste so we rewrote the OSS backend to Postgres" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47871115)) "migrated a non-trivial firestore app to sqlite" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50020690))

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://cloud.google.com/products/firestore)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Firebase Firestore", https://hackerapproved.com/p/firestore/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).