How do I completely delete Cloud Datastore from a project?

Question

I want to create a Firestore in Native mode in an existing project. I don't have any data in Cloud Datastore, but it blocks me, saying

This project uses another database service Your current project is set up to use Cloud Datastore or Cloud Firestore in Datastore mode. You can access data for this project from the Cloud Datastore console.

when going through https://console.cloud.google.com/firestore/ and

Cannot enable Firestore for this project Currently Firestore cannot be enabled in projects already using Cloud Datastore or App Engine

when going through https://console.firebase.google.com/

I've tried it with writes to datastore enabled and disabled

I just want to completely purge the Cloud Datastore product from my project.

Answer 1

Unfortunately, there is no way to purge the previous existence of a Cloud Datastore database to try either Cloud Firestore in native or Datastore mode. You'll have to use a new project to try Cloud Firestore in either native or Datastore mode.

Answer 2

I just tried it on my end. I deleted all my entities (test project) and disabled my Datastore API, same issue as you when I visit the console.firebase.google.com page.

This is likely an issue that needs to be reported either through support (if you have a support package for Google Cloud Platform), or through our issue tracker.

Answer 3

This is the response I got from Google Cloud Support today (February 16th, 2021):

Generally, we do recommend to create a new project and enable Firestore therein. Nonetheless I may submit a request to delete your existing database which may allow you to change the database to the desired mode. However, please keep in mind that I’m unable to guarantee it’s approval.

Answer 4

Still the same as of 10 June 2020.

Answer 5

If you have an empty Datastore database and you never executed a write to the database, you can upgrade to Firestore in Datastore mode or Native mode.

If you do not receive this option, then your database instance will be automatically upgraded at a future date.

If you upgrade from Datastore to Firestore in Datastore mode or from Datastore mode to Native mode, you cannot undo the operation.

See this page for additional details: https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/upgrade-to-firestore

Answer 6

If you just want to lock down use the following security rule it will not delete but lock down your firestore so no one can write to it. Its not the answer you are looking for but in the same spirit.

// Deny read/write access to all users under any conditions
service cloud.firestore {
  match /databases/{database}/documents {
    match /{document=**} {
      allow read, write: if false;
    }
  }
}

Answer 7

Just visit https://console.cloud.google.com/....... by clicking on the button, if you have not added any data it will show option to switch to native