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Mee Noi
Mee Noi

Reputation: 109

Is it safe to store small images in Firestore?

I have a Firebase database and now I'm moving to Firestore. Are there any problems if I store small images in Firestore that are encoded to Base64? I have a collection sport_products where I have documents with all details and I also have an icon with the corresponding brand and I want to store all data + icon in a single place. Is it safe?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 3172

Answers (1)

Doug Stevenson
Doug Stevenson

Reputation: 317760

You don't need to base64 encode anything in Firestore. It has a native binary field type called "bytes". base64 will just make the data larger for no reason (unless you really only intend to consume that data in base64 format).

You have a maximum document size of 1MB, so as long as you never go over that limit for all the data in that document combined, you won't have a problem.

Upvotes: 9

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