🆚 Cloud Firestore vs. PostgreSQL

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 PostgreSQL is much more popular than Cloud Firestore.
🌍 PostgreSQL is more popular in all countries.

Cloud Firestore

PostgreSQL

Type

Database technology

About

Cloud Firestore is a scalable, enterprise-grade, JSON-compatible document database from Firebase and Google Cloud.

It offers offline support and real-time listeners, provides strong consistency, atomic batch writes, automatic multi-region replication, and scales to about 1M concurrent client connections and 10,000 writes per second.

PostgreSQL, also known as Postgres, is a powerful open-source object-relational database system that extends SQL with features for storing structured, semi-structured and geometric data.

It supports ACID transactions, multiversion concurrency control (MVCC), advanced indexing types (GiST, GIN, BRIN), native JSON/JSONB with indexing, extensibility through custom types and functions, full-text search, foreign data wrappers, and geospatial queries via PostGIS.

Headquarters

Mountain View, California, United States

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Website

firebase.google.com

postgresql.org #1,672

Pricing

Free tier ✔️1 GB of storage + 10 GB/month of outbound traffic

Storage$0.1+GB/month

Outbound traffic$0.01+/GB

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

PostgreSQL database technology is 9 times more popular than Cloud Firestore.

Total websites

Market share

Databases

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

PostgreSQL is more popular than Cloud Firestore in all countries.

United States

France

Germany

United Kingdom

Belgium

Spain

Canada

India

Netherlands

China

Awards

⭐ 8th most popular in India in the Databases category.
⭐ 9th most popular in the United States in the Databases category.

⭐ 4th most popular in France in the Databases category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Germany in the Databases category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Belgium in the Databases category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Spain in the Databases category.
⭐ 4th most popular in China in the Databases category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

PostgreSQL is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and marketing and merchandising, while Cloud Firestore is more commonly used on sports sites.

Business

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Software/Hardware

Social Networking

Health

Entertainment

Sports