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 astraditional databases, as a NoSQL database it differs from them in the way itdescribes relationships between data objects.

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