"Cloud Firestore in Datastore mode" suddenly appeared

Wolf War

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Jan 19, 2020, 11:56:36 AM1/19/20

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In the middle of my project, when I started to use storage (for image saving)

and went to firebase database to see that everything works fine in console view

new "info element" showed up in database section

Giving me the choice between firestore (only accessed trough google cloud platform) and realtime database

I had previously activated and used realtime database (not firestore) and it worked fine, as expected

but after I started using storage, and uploaded first image to it, this new stuff came up

I can still go to my realtime database, and it's fine, but...

Did I accidentally enabled something?

How do I get rid of it?... I wanna continue using realtime database

this is a screenshot of it in my console

Sam Stern

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Jan 21, 2020, 12:56:59 PM1/21/20

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Hi there,

Is it possible you started using AppEngine or Cloud Datastore directly? That would cause this to happen. To be clear this does not affect your ability to use Realtime Database at all, you can keep using that as-is. However this will affect your ability to use Cloud Firestore in Native mode in the future, since each project can only have a single Datastore/Firestore instance and the mode selection is permanent.

- Sam

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Wolf War

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Jan 25, 2020, 4:19:30 PM1/25/20

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Hi Sam

No, I'm sure I didn't.

After I enabled database, I wasn't even visiting firebase for a day or two...

Then I enabled storage on firebase (everything was fine), and doing some code on my client side.

When I went to see how that looks on database (I saved image publicURL into my databse object)

then I noticed this situation

On Tuesday, January 21, 2020 at 6:56:59 PM UTC+1, Samuel Stern wrote:

Hi there,

Is it possible you started using AppEngine or Cloud Datastore directly? That would cause this to happen. To be clear this does not affect your ability to use Realtime Database at all, you can keep using that as-is. However this will affect your ability to use Cloud Firestore in Native mode in the future, since each project can only have a single Datastore/Firestore instance and the mode selection is permanent.

- Sam

On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 8:56 AM Wolf War <wolf...@gmail.com> wrote:

In the middle of my project, when I started to use storage (for image saving)
and went to firebase database to see that everything works fine in console view
new "info element" showed up in database section

Giving me the choice between firestore (only accessed trough google cloud platform) and realtime database

I had previously activated and used realtime database (not firestore) and it worked fine, as expected
but after I started using storage, and uploaded first image to it, this new stuff came up

I can still go to my realtime database, and it's fine, but...

Did I accidentally enabled something?
How do I get rid of it?... I wanna continue using realtime database

this is a screenshot of it in my console

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Sam Stern

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Jan 27, 2020, 5:04:10 PM1/27/20

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Hey Wolf,

That's really strange and to be honest I can't offer an explanation, this isn't something I have heard of before. In any case it will not have any effect on your use of Realtime Database so hopefully you're able to keep working on your app.

- Sam

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Wolf War

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Jan 28, 2020, 8:16:19 PM1/28/20

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Thanx Sam

DB is working fine...

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Puneet Sharma

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May 9, 2020, 10:52:47 AM5/9/20

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Hi there,

I am facing a similar issue, basically, the project was shut down accidentally and was restored again. But after restoring the project my database was changed to Firestore and now I am not able to revert back to Real-time database.

Any idea how to fix this issue?

Sam Stern

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May 11, 2020, 8:45:21 AM5/11/20

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Last week we figured out how to reproduce this issue, it's likely a bug in the Firebase console and we are working on it! If you see this there is nothing actually wrong with your project, just follow the link to move to Native mode.

Puneet: you can use Firestore and Realtime Database in the same project, just ignore the message in your case.

- Sam

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Sagar Mehendale

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Jun 18, 2020, 7:45:33 PM6/18/20

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I also faced similar issue. I did data export from one instance of firebase project to new instance. it migrated data and set as datastore mode. I want to use native mode. how i can do that?

On Monday, May 11, 2020 at 1:45:21 PM UTC+1, Samuel Stern wrote:

Last week we figured out how to reproduce this issue, it's likely a bug in the Firebase console and we are working on it! If you see this there is nothing actually wrong with your project, just follow the link to move to Native mode.

Puneet: you can use Firestore and Realtime Database in the same project, just ignore the message in your case.

- Sam

On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 10:52 AM Puneet Sharma <p.sha...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi there,

I am facing a similar issue, basically, the project was shut down accidentally and was restored again. But after restoring the project my database was changed to Firestore and now I am not able to revert back to Real-time database.
Any idea how to fix this issue?

On Monday, January 20, 2020 at 12:56:36 AM UTC+8, Wolf War wrote:
In the middle of my project, when I started to use storage (for image saving)
and went to firebase database to see that everything works fine in console view
new "info element" showed up in database section

Giving me the choice between firestore (only accessed trough google cloud platform) and realtime database

I had previously activated and used realtime database (not firestore) and it worked fine, as expected
but after I started using storage, and uploaded first image to it, this new stuff came up

I can still go to my realtime database, and it's fine, but...

Did I accidentally enabled something?
How do I get rid of it?... I wanna continue using realtime database

this is a screenshot of it in my console

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