Does Cloud Python lib in GAE use caching or memcache for access to Cloud Firestore data?

Question

Setup: Google App Engine application on Python standard environment.

Currently, the app uses the NDB library to read/write from its Datastore. It uses async tasklets for parallel, asynchronous reads from Datastore, and memcache.

If I would like to use Firestore as a replacement for Datastore, it seems that I would have to use the Google Cloud Client Library for Python. I believe that the google-cloud lib doesn't support a mechanism like tasklets. But I wonder: Does the lib use a thread-safe cache-mechanism for its requests to the Firestore API, and maybe even GAE's memcache?

Answer 1

The Cloud Firestore server-side client libraries are not optimized for App Engine Standard. They don't integrate with a caching solution like GAE's memcache; you'd have to write that layer yourself.