Cloud Firestore & Cloud Firestore for Firebase

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What is the difference between Cloud Firestore and Cloud Firestore for Firebase?

Here's a thread asking the same, but someone, please enlighten me.

https://www.reddit.com/r/googlecloud/comments/bb9n46/what_is_the_difference_between_the_cloud/

Is it the same? If not, which one to use?

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Alex Mamo's answer looks really good to me. Would you care considering making it an accepted one? See his comment, too. – akauppi

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The link you have shared is talking about the differences between quickstarts, Firestore as a service within GCP and Firestore as a service within Firebase. There also two different consoles for that. Both doing the same thing.

Please note that Cloud Firestore as a service is available with, or without Firebase SDKs.

Is it the same?

The difference that I see between them is that in Firebase console you can set the security rules and you access other services like IAM, BigQuery, more easily.

If not, which one to use?

If you are used to work in a Google Cloud Platform environment, use the Cloud console, otherwise use the Firebase console. So it depends on whatever your preference is.

For more informations, I recommend you read Doug Stevenson's post on medium.com regarding the same topic: