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Is adding full text search functionality to the Firebase product suite on the product roadmap?
Yes please! 🙏
If Firebase wants to support building real world scalable apps, then full-text-search is a requirement! I can't think of a big app (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, ...) without search functionality!
Thanks for the feedback! Right now our recommendation is to integrate Firestore with an external tool for full-text searches. But I agree that this is a workaround, and it'd be better to have an integrated solution.
Adding full-text search natively in Firestore is definitely on the roadmap, but haven't yet found a way to do this in a way that doesn't change Firestore's performance guarantee that searches don't depend on the size of the collection. So far that means we've prioritized releasing other features that we can guarantee performance for, such as the != queries that are coming out this week.
That makes sense. I would really love for a native Firebase/GCloud solution as that is the ecosystem I work in even if it requires maintaining a separate dataset in a different FB/GCloud product. This is how I utilized Search API with Datastore for Gen 1 AppEngine.
I'm always surprised that a google product doesn't have full text search
Based on how Firestore works (every field in every document is indexed), I don't think a native full-text search would be even possible. It would be really cool to see a Firebase Extension to tackle this issue though!