Beta Firebase Firestore will not work with projects using the application engine

Question

When I try to add a beta firestore to my Google cloud platform project, I get the following message.

Unable to enable Firestore for this project
Currently, Firestore cannot be enabled on projects already using Cloud Datastore or App Engine.

Will it go on forever?
I think I would like to replace some, but not all of my storage materials, with firestore to receive real-time updates.

Perhaps firestore uses data storage and appengine in its backend?

Should I use two GCP projects to get around this?

Thanks Nathan

Answer 1

This is currently a technical limitation that we hope to remove in the future.

Yes, you will currently need to use two separate GCP projects to use both cloud storage and cloud Firestore at the same time.