I'm migrating an app from GAE/J Datastore to Cloud Firestore. The app uses GAE Full Text Search service. The Firestore docs recommend using Algolia/ElasticSearch for full-text search.
Is there anything that prevents using the search service with Firestore? Why is the docs recommending external search services esp. Google being known for search
Thanks
There's nothing that prevents you from using Cloud Firestore and the App Engine Search API together; it's just also possible to use Cloud Firestore outside of App Engine, so we don't want to constrain users to any particular environment.